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churchmanship

noun

churchmanship is spelled C-H-U-R-C-H-M-A-N-S-H-I-P: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, churchmanship means “The craft or skill of being a churchman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of churchmanship is churchmanships.

How many letters and syllables are in churchmanship?

Letters13: C-H-U-R-C-H-M-A-N-S-H-I-P
In writingabout once in every 51 million words; the 222,788th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is churchmanship?

Churchmanship appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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).

Forms of churchmanship

  • churchmanships plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does churchmanship mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The craft or skill of being a churchman.

    […] partly because of their “more Roman than the Romans” style of churchmanship, but also for fear of upsetting Anglicans and the Church of England […] .

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does churchmanship come from?

From churchman + -ship. Compare statesmanship.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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