working day
"working-day" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“working day” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of those days of a week on which work is done, officially Monday to Friday in many countries (even though many people work on weekends).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | working day |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “working day” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for working day is 11 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
working day doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is working day, spelled W-O-R-K-I-N-G- -D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Any of those days of a week on which work is done, officially Monday to Friday in many countries (even though many people work on weekends).
- 2The part of a day in which work is done; the number of hours one must work per day for a specified wage.
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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 “working day”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-O-R-K-I-N-G- -D-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.