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weeknight

noun

weeknight is spelled W-E-E-K-N-I-G-H-T: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, weeknight means “The evening of a weekday” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of weeknight is weeknights.

How many letters and syllables are in weeknight?

Letters9: W-E-E-K-N-I-G-H-T
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 45,947th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 weeknight?

Weeknight appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th 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).

Forms of weeknight

  • weeknights plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does weeknight mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The evening of a weekday.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Weeknight in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense evening of a weekday:

LanguageWords
GermanAbend unter der Woche

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 weeknight come from?

From week + night.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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