weekday
week·day/ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/noun
weekday is spelled W-E-E-K-D-A-Y: 7 letters and 2 syllables (week·day). It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, weekday means “Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of weekday is weekdays.
How many letters and syllables are in weekday?
| Letters | 7: W-E-E-K-D-A-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: week·day |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,336th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is weekday?
Weekday appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th 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 weekday?
- /ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/
- [ˈwɪi̯kdeɪ̯]
- Australia /ˈwiːkdæ̝ɪ̯/
Weekday has 2 syllables, split week·day in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-weekday.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of weekday
- weekdays plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does weekday mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
- 2
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
- 3
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
- 4
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
- 5
archaicAny day of the week (Monday through Sunday).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Weekday in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense day of the week, excluding weekends:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | jour de la semaine, jour ouvré |
| German | Wochentag, Werktag, Arbeitstag |
| Portuguese | dia de semana |
| Spanish | día de entre semana, día de entresemana, dia laborable, día de diario |
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 weekday come from?
Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikadag, from Proto-Germanic *wikadagaz (“weekday”). By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Low German Wekendag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”), Faroese vikudagur (“weekday”), Icelandic vikudagur (“weekday”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).