chieftainship
noun
chieftainship is a noun meaning “The state of being a chieftain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-I-E-F-T-A-I-N-S-H-I-P, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chieftainship is chieftainships.
What does chieftainship mean?
noun
- 1
The state of being a chieftain
- 2
The area ruled by a chieftain
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chieftainship
- chieftainships plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chieftainship?
Chieftainship appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does chieftainship come from?
From chieftain + -ship. Piecewise doublet of captainship.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).