apportionment
"apportionment" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“apportionment” is uncommon English (frequency #54,014 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,014
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
Corpus desk
Index EN-apportionment · apportionment · English
apportionment · rank #54,014 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,014
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH apocrypha
Nearest frequency peer: apocrypha (-1 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 “apportionment”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- anoint
anoint
45,992 corpus weight
- Antares
Antares
45,991 corpus weight
- apocrypha
apocrypha
45,988 corpus weight
- apportionme…
apportionment
45,987 corpus weight
- Araki
Araki
45,986 corpus weight
- Aran
Aran
45,985 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “apportionment” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apportionment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #54,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “apportionment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
apportionment is uncommon English at frequency #54,014 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for apportionment in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From apportion + -ment. The correct English form is apportionment, spelled A-P-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
- 2The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
- 3The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apportionment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
The names of the prayers are given above the tunes, but there is no indication of apportionment of the text to the phrases and notes of the melody.
Etymology
From apportion + -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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