Saturday
/ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/
"saturday" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Saturday” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #1,438 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,438
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Saturday |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Saturday” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Saturday is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,438 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Saturday, with forms such as "asturday", "satruday", and "satturday". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sturdy", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Sa… The correct English form is Saturday, spelled S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.
Etymology
From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asturday,satruday,satturday,satudray,saturady,saturdayy,saturdday,saturdya,saturrday,sautrday,ssaturday,staurday
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Saturday - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Saturday”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sturdy” - see the side-by-side comparison. Saturday vs sturdy
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.