containership

noun

"containership" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“containership” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of container ship.

Corpus desk

Index EN-containership · containership · English

containership · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for containership
PropertyValue
Headwordcontainership
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “containership” in English

containershipsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

containership is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of container ship.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for containership, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is containership, spelled C-O-N-T-A-I-N-E-R-S-H-I-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of container ship.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. A containership was passing in the far distance, a dark rectangle in the dusk.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "containership"?
"containership" is spelled C-O-N-T-A-I-N-E-R-S-H-I-P.
What does "containership" mean?
As a noun, "containership" means: Alternative spelling of container ship.
What language does "containership" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list