comradeship

noun

"comradeship" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“comradeship” is uncommon English (frequency #72,198 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,198
frequency rank, English
5,599
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The company or friendship of others, or sharing a goal.

Corpus desk

Index EN-comradeship · comradeship · English

comradeship · rank #72,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,198
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH confocal

Nearest frequency peer: confocal (+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 “comradeship”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “comradeship” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for comradeship
PropertyValue
Headwordcomradeship
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#72,198
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “comradeship” in English

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).comradeshipfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Rare peers in the same band: “confocal” (#72,199), “commentate” (#72,196), “combinatorics” (#72,195). Among 5,599 “C” headwords, “comradeship” is #72,198. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

comradeship is uncommon English at frequency #72,198 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The company or friendship of others, or sharing a goal.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for comradeship, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From comrade + -ship. The correct English form is comradeship, spelled C-O-M-R-A-D-E-S-H-I-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    The company or friendship of others, or sharing a goal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how comradeship appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. He was a psychologist rather than a philosopher, and his interest and zest in life, in the relationships of simple people, the intermingling of personal emotions and happy comradeships, kept him from ever forming cynical or merely spectatorial views of humanity.
  2. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

Etymology

From comrade + -ship.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comradeship"?
"comradeship" is spelled C-O-M-R-A-D-E-S-H-I-P.
What does "comradeship" mean?
As a noun, "comradeship" means: The company or friendship of others, or sharing a goal.
What is the origin of the word "comradeship"?
From comrade + -ship. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "comradeship", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list