evening

/\ˈiv.nɪŋ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#45,596

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

evening is aFrenchnoun. It means: (Moment de la journée) Soir, soirée. Pronounced \ˈiv.nɪŋ\.

Key facts for evening
PropertyValue
Headwordevening
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈiv.nɪŋ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#45,596
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of evening in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for evening is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈiv.nɪŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,596 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Moment de la journée) Soir, soirée.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for evening, with forms such as "eevning", "eveinng", and "evenign". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is evening, spelled E-V-E-N-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Moment de la journée) Soir, soirée.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eevning,eveinng,evenign,eveningg,eveninng,evennig,evenning,evneing,evvening,veening

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for evening

Misspelling Variants of "evening"

eevning7eveinng7evenign7eveningg8eveninng8evennig7evenning8evneing7
Misspelling Variants of "evening"

Frequency rank: #45,596 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "evening"?
"evening" is spelled E-V-E-N-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈiv.nɪŋ\.
What does "evening" mean?
As a noun, "evening" means: (Moment de la journée) Soir, soirée.
What are common misspellings of "evening"?
Common misspellings include "eevning", "eveinng", "evenign", "eveningg", "eveninng". The correct spelling is "evening".
How do you pronounce "evening"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "evening" is \ˈiv.nɪŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "evening" come from?
"evening" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.