yuletide
"yuletide" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yuletide” is uncommon English (frequency #61,231 among 2,763 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,231
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative letter-case form of Yuletide (“Christmas or the Christmas season”).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yuletide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yuletide” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yuletide is uncommon English at frequency #61,231 among 2,763 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for yuletide, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Yule (“Germanic Winter Festival”) + -tide (“period around a festival, season”); compare Swedish juletid. The correct English form is yuletide, spelled Y-U-L-E-T-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative letter-case form of Yuletide (“Christmas or the Christmas season”).
- 2The flower Camellia sasanqua, native to Japan and nearby islands.
Etymology
From Yule (“Germanic Winter Festival”) + -tide (“period around a festival, season”); compare Swedish juletid.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “yuletide”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Y-U-L-E-T-I-D-E - 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.