schooldays

noun

"schooldays" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“schooldays” is uncommon English (frequency #77,180 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#77,180
frequency rank, English
54,294
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.

Key facts for schooldays
PropertyValue
Headwordschooldays
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#77,180
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “schooldays” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). schooldays lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

schooldays is uncommon English at frequency #77,180 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for schooldays, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is schooldays, spelled S-C-H-O-O-L-D-A-Y-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "schooldays"?
"schooldays" is spelled S-C-H-O-O-L-D-A-Y-S.
What does "schooldays" mean?
As a noun, "schooldays" means: The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.
What language does "schooldays" come from?
"schooldays" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “schooldays”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is S-C-H-O-O-L-D-A-Y-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list