working week

noun

"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.

Key facts for working week
PropertyValue
Headwordworking week
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “working week” sits in English frequency

working week falls 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 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

  1. 1
    The 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "working week"?
"working week" is spelled W-O-R-K-I-N-G- -W-E-E-K.
What does "working week" mean?
As a noun, "working week" means: The days of the week that are usually worked on, i.e. Monday to Friday.
What language does "working week" come from?
"working week" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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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.
  • 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list