weekday
/ˈwiːkdæ̝ɪ̯/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
noun
Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
noun
Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
noun
Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
Example Sentences
- "The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton."
- "TfL reckons that London Overground attracts annual ridership of 185 million from a network of 113 stations and 1,600 weekday services, delivered with an ARL staff numbering 1,500."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikadag, from Proto-Germanic *wikadagaz (“weekday”). By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Low German Wekendag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”), Faroese vikudagur (“weekday”), Icelandic vikudagur (“weekday”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wykeday, wicdæġ, *wikadag, *wikadagaz
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwiːkdæ̝ɪ̯/