working week
"working-week" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“working week” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The days of the week that are usually worked on, i.e. Monday to Friday.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | working week |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “working week” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
working week is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The days of the week that are usually worked on, i.e. Monday to Friday.".
working week doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is working week, spelled W-O-R-K-I-N-G- -W-E-E-K.
Definition
- 1The days of the week that are usually worked on, i.e. Monday to Friday.
Synonyms
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 week”
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- -W-E-E-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.