abolishment
/əˈbɑl.ɪʃ.mənt/
"abolishment" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abolishment” is uncommon English (frequency #64,154 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,154
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
Corpus desk
Index EN-abolishment · abolishment · English
abolishment · rank #64,154 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,154
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH academical
Nearest frequency peer: academical (+3 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “abolishment”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abolishment
abolishment
35,847 corpus weight
- academical
academical
35,844 corpus weight
- Acadian
Acadian
35,843 corpus weight
- acclimate
acclimate
35,842 corpus weight
- acquirer
acquirer
35,838 corpus weight
- affirmative…
affirmatively
35,837 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “abolishment” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abolishment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ.mənt/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “abolishment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
abolishment is uncommon English at frequency #64,154 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ.mənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.".
Zero misspellings are on record for abolishment in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French abolissement, from aboliss-, stem of some conjugated forms abolir, equivalent to abolish + -ment. The correct English form is abolishment, spelled A-B-O-L-I-S-H-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
Etymology
From Middle French abolissement, from aboliss-, stem of some conjugated forms abolir, equivalent to abolish + -ment.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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