divestiture
/dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/
"divestiture" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“divestiture” is uncommon English (frequency #69,002 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,002
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
Corpus desk
Index EN-divestiture · divestiture · English
divestiture · rank #69,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,002
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dispersive
Nearest frequency peer: dispersive (-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 “divestiture”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dingus
dingus
31,003 corpus weight
- disbelieving
disbelieving
31,002 corpus weight
- disentangle
disentangle
31,001 corpus weight
- dispersive
dispersive
31,000 corpus weight
- divestiture
divestiture
30,999 corpus weight
- Donbas
Donbas
30,995 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “divestiture” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “divestiture” in English
Rare enough to double-check
divestiture is uncommon English at frequency #69,002 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɪˈvɛstɪt͡ʃɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
divestiture has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how divestiture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Organic sales, which exclude the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange, are now expected to rise 2 per cent to 5 per cent[…].
And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.
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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