weekend

/\wi.kɛnd\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,449

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

weekend is aFrenchnoun. It means: Variante orthographique de week-end. Pronounced \wi.kɛnd\. It ranks #6,449 in French word frequency. Often confused with weekends.

Key facts for weekend
PropertyValue
Headwordweekend
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\wi.kɛnd\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,449
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for weekend is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wi.kɛnd\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,449 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Variante orthographique de week-end.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for weekend, with forms such as "ewekend", "weeeknd", and "weekedn". 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 also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "weekends", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 weekend, spelled W-E-E-K-E-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante orthographique de week-end.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ewekend,weeeknd,weekedn,weekendd,weekennd,weekkend,weekned,wekeend,wekend,wweekend

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for weekend

Misspelling Variants of "weekend"

ewekend7weeeknd7weekedn7weekendd8weekennd8weekkend8weekned7wekeend7
Misspelling Variants of "weekend"

Frequency rank: #6,449 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "weekend"?
"weekend" is spelled W-E-E-K-E-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is \wi.kɛnd\.
What does "weekend" mean?
As a noun, "weekend" means: Variante orthographique de week-end.
What words are commonly confused with "weekend"?
"weekend" is commonly confused with "weekends". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "weekend"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "weekend" is \wi.kɛnd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "weekend" come from?
"weekend" 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.