turn of the year
"turn-of-the-year" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“turn of the year” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Approximately at the end of one year and the beginning of the next.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | turn of the year |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “turn of the year” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
turn of the year is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Approximately at the end of one year and the beginning of the next.".
turn of the year has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is turn of the year, spelled T-U-R-N- -O-F- -T-H-E- -Y-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Approximately at the end of one year and the beginning of the next.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “turn of the year”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-U-R-N- -O-F- -T-H-E- -Y-E-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.