divestiture
/dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/
"divestiture" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“divestiture” is an uncommon English word, ranked #69,002 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #69,002
- frequency rank, English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divestiture |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “divestiture” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for divestiture is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/. Corpus data places it at rank #69,002 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 divestiture in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is divestiture, spelled D-I-V-E-S-T-I-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
- 2The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.
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 “divestiture”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-I-V-E-S-T-I-T-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.