dispossession
/dɪspəˈzɛʃn̩/
"dispossession" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dispossession” is an uncommon English word, ranked #65,838 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,838
- frequency rank, English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of dispossessing someone of something.
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| Headword | dispossession |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪspəˈzɛʃn̩/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #65,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dispossession” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dispossession is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪspəˈzɛʃn̩/. Corpus data places it at rank #65,838 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 dispossession in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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 dis- + possession. The correct English form is dispossession, spelled D-I-S-P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of dispossessing someone of something.
- 2The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
Etymology
From dis- + possession.
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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- The one correct English spelling is D-I-S-P-O-S-S-E-S-S-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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