# Thursday

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈθɜːz.deɪ/ · frequency rank #2,412

## Definitions
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.

## 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).

## Easily confused with
- **Tuesday** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thursday-vs-tuesday)

## Common misspellings (13)
`htursday`, `thhursday`, `thrusday`, `thurdsay`, `thurrsday`, `thursady`, `thursdayy`, `thursdday`, `thursdya`, `thurssday`, `thusrday`, `tthursday`, `tuhrsday`

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