yestertime

noun

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

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Time previous to the present; the past.

Corpus desk

Index EN-yestertime · yestertime · English

yestertime · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "Y" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for yestertime
PropertyValue
Headwordyestertime
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “yestertime” sits in English frequency

yestertimeranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

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

Rare enough to double-check

yestertime is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Time previous to the present; the past.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for yestertime in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From yester- + time. The correct English form is yestertime, spelled Y-E-S-T-E-R-T-I-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Time previous to the present; the past.

Etymology

From yester- + time.

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 "yestertime"?
"yestertime" is spelled Y-E-S-T-E-R-T-I-M-E.
What does "yestertime" mean?
As a noun, "yestertime" means: Time previous to the present; the past.
What is the origin of the word "yestertime"?
From yester- + time. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list