working day

noun

"working-day" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“working day” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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).

Corpus desk

Index EN-working-day · working day · English

working day · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "W" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for working day
PropertyValue
Headwordworking day
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “working day” in English

working dayfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

working day is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

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

  1. 1
    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).
  2. 2
    The part of a day in which work is done; the number of hours one must work per day for a specified wage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how working day appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. It will take five working days to process your application.
  2. Your working day is 8 hours.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "working day"?
"working day" is spelled W-O-R-K-I-N-G- -D-A-Y.
What does "working day" mean?
As a noun, "working day" means: 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).
What language does "working day" come from?
"working day" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list