# Tuesday

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈtjuːz.deɪ/ · frequency rank #2,373

## Definitions
1. The third day of the week in many religious traditions, and the second day of the week in systems that use the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Monday and precedes Wednesday.

## Etymology
From Middle English Tewesday, from Old English tīwesdæġ (“Tuesday”), from Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag (“Tuesday”, literally “Tiw's Day”).
This was a Germanic interpretation of Latin diēs Mārtis, itself a translation of Ancient Greek Ἄρεως ἡμέρα (Áreōs hēméra) (interpretatio romana). Cognate with Scots Tysday (“Tuesday”), Saterland Frisian Täisdai (“Tuesday”), West Frisian tiisdei (“Tuesday”), dialectal German Ziestag (“Tuesday”), Danish tirsdag (“Tuesday”), Swedish tisdag (“Tuesday”), Finnish tiistai (“Tuesday”). More at Tyr, day.

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

## Common misspellings (10)
`teusday`, `ttuesday`, `tuedsay`, `tuesady`, `tuesdayy`, `tuesdday`, `tuesdya`, `tuessday`, `tuseday`, `utesday`

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