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I am trying to use this word to say how often my basketball team meets to practice.

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    @FumbleFingers: Four times a week is not a duplicate of four times a year. This question is probably un-answerable, but not a dup. – cobaltduck Jan 04 '16 at 19:08
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    @cobaltduck: People do sometimes use quad-weekly, but that's inherently ambiguous (four times a week, or once every four weeks?). Whatever - comments on that earlier question include both quadri- and quadru-* mean: four or four times*, which about all there is to say here. – FumbleFingers Jan 04 '16 at 19:12
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    I think you're stuck with "four times a week". Bi-weekly can't even decide if it's every two weeks or twice a week. – Mazura Jan 04 '16 at 19:21
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    @FumbleFingers - Dupes shouldn't rely on comments and the only answer that mentions quad is at -1. I'll take this opportunity to point out that saying "If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question." basically says to new users, if we've duped your question and those answers don't work for you, just ask this same question again. There should be a button: No, this is not a dupe and those answers didn't help me. and Yes, THIS answer helped me. with a script that copy-pastes their selected answer. – Mazura Jan 04 '16 at 19:23
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    why'd you dupe my question fumble fingers? there are no similar answered questions. – Andrew Borders Jan 04 '16 at 22:45
  • There is no such word, at least not one that would be recognized by more than one person in 100. – Hot Licks Jan 05 '16 at 00:31
  • The word is fourtimesaweek. – Drew Jan 05 '16 at 02:41
  • I think that if you have to ask for such a word then any such word, if it exists, is unlikely to be correctly understood by the intended audience. – Cass Lopez Jun 30 '21 at 15:38

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No, there is no word for "occurring four times a week".

Even the common phrase "every other day" only means four times a week in alternate weeks. Just use the phrase "meets four times a week".

There could have been such a word if weeks were eight or twelve days long. But "four times a week" with seven-day weeks is not evenly distributed. If there were a word which unambiguously meant "four times a week" rather than "every four weeks", then it's likely to be so rare that no-one would know what it meant, anyway.

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You are best saying “meets four times a week on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays” to provide all needed information. Using a word such as quarterweekly as suggested doesn’t provide anything but the bare bones information.

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quarterweekly could work along long the lines of quarterly.

No matter that it isn't in a dictionary. Nobody will need one to know what you mean.

(Thank you, @FumbleFingers, for the link to is-there-a-prefix-that-indicates-that-an-event-recurs-four-times-a-year.)

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