consulship
"consulship" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“consulship” is an uncommon English word, ranked #81,234 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #81,234
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The office of a consul, in its various senses.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consulship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “consulship” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for consulship is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #81,234 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for consulship in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From consul + -ship. The correct English form is consulship, spelled C-O-N-S-U-L-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1The office of a consul, in its various senses.
- 2The term of office of a consul.
Etymology
From consul + -ship.
Synonyms
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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Using “consulship”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-S-U-L-S-H-I-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.