working day
"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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | working day |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “working day” in English
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
- 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how working day appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It will take five working days to process your application.
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.