Thursday
Thurs·day/ˈθɜːz.deɪ/noun, adverb
Thursday is spelled T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y, 2 syllables: Thurs·day. The wrong spelling people search most is thurday: about 430 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 38 of all searches for the word. Thursday is a noun meaning “The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the…”. The plural of Thursday is Thursdays.
How many letters and syllables are in Thursday?
| Letters | 8: T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: Thurs·day |
| In writing | 42 times per million words; the 2,392nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, thurday, about 430 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell Thursday?
Thursday is spelled T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 38 of the searches for Thursday in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is Thursday?
Thursday appears 42 times per million words in written English, the 2,392nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce Thursday?
- UK /ˈθɜːz.deɪ/
- UK /-.di/
- /ˈθɔːz.də/
Thursday has 2 syllables, split Thurs·day in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-Thursday.ogg, En-us-Thursday.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Thursday
- Thursdays plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does Thursday mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
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.
adverb
- 1
CanadaUSinformalOn Thursday.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Thursday in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | jeudi , le jeudi |
| German | Donnerstag , am Donnerstag |
| Portuguese | quinta-feira , na quinta-feira |
| Spanish | jueves , el jueves |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Thursday come from?
From Middle English Thursday, Thuresday, from Old English þursdæġ, þuresdæġ (“Thursday”), possibly from a contraction of þunresdæġ (“Thursday”, literally “Thor's day”), or 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).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).