everyday
Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
Adjective 3 meanings
Appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
“1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar, When they had gone, Bobbie put on her everyday frock, and went down to the railway.”
Commonplace, ordinary.
Present or recurring every day.
Etymology
From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.
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EVERYDAY at a glance
EVERYDAY has 8 letters and scores 18 points in Scrabble (E 1 + V 4 + E 1 + R 1 + Y 4 + D 2 + A 1 + Y 4) and 17 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,098 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with everyday
All rhymes- TODAY9
- YESTERDAY16
- BIRTHDAY17
- HOLIDAY14
- SOMEDAY13
- PAYDAY15
- MIDDAY13
- WEEKDAY18
- DOOMSDAY15
- HEYDAY16
- FARADAY14
- WORKDAY18
One letter away
- EVERYWAY20
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