# Saturday

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/ · frequency rank #1,438

## Definitions
1. 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.

## 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”).

## Easily confused with
- **sturdy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saturday-vs-sturdy)

## Common misspellings (12)
`asturday`, `satruday`, `satturday`, `satudray`, `saturady`, `saturdayy`, `saturdday`, `saturdya`, `saturrday`, `sautrday`, `ssaturday`, `staurday`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/saturday