Thursday
/ˈθɜːz.deɪ/
"thursday" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Thursday” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #2,412 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,412
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.
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 | Thursday |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈθɜːz.deɪ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Thursday” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Thursday is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈθɜːz.deɪ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,412 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Thursday, with forms such as "htursday", "thhursday", and "thrusday". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Tuesday", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Thursday, Thuresday, from Old English þursdæġ, þuresdæġ (“Thursday”), possibly from a contraction of þunresdæġ (“Thursday”, literally “Thor's day”), but more likely of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse þórsdagr; all from Proto-West G… The correct English form is Thursday, spelled T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.
Etymology
From Middle English Thursday, Thuresday, from Old English þursdæġ, þuresdæġ (“Thursday”), possibly from a contraction of þunresdæġ (“Thursday”, literally “Thor's day”), but more likely of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse þórsdagr; all from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag (“day of the thunder god”). Compare West Frisian tongersdei, German Low German Dunnersdag, Dutch donderdag, German Donnerstag, Danish torsdag. More at thunder, day. A calque of Latin diēs Iovis (diēs Jovis), via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the god Thor with the Roman god of thunder Jove (Jupiter).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: htursday,thhursday,thrusday,thurdsay,thurrsday,thursady,thursdayy,thursdday,thursdya,thurssday,thusrday,tthursday,tuhrsday
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Thursday - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Thursday”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈθɜːz.deɪ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Tuesday” - see the side-by-side comparison. Thursday vs Tuesday
- 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.