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entrepreneurship

/ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.ʃɪp/noun

entrepreneurship is spelled E-N-T-R-E-P-R-E-N-E-U-R-S-H-I-P. The wrong spelling people search most is entrepeneurship: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 116 of all searches for the word. Entrepreneurship is a noun meaning “The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business”. The plural of entrepreneurship is entrepreneurships.

How many letters and syllables are in entrepreneurship?

Letters16: E-N-T-R-E-P-R-E-N-E-U-R-S-H-I-P
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.7 times per million words; the 13,496th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, entrepeneurship, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship is spelled E-N-T-R-E-P-R-E-N-E-U-R-S-H-I-P. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 116 of the searches for entrepreneurship in either form.

entrepreneurshipthe right spelling5,750 searches a month
entrepeneurshipa missing r50 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce entrepreneurship?

  • UK /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜːʃɪp/
  • US /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.ʃɪp/
  • US /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ.ʃɪp/

Entrepreneurship has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-entrepreneurship.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with entrepreneurship?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as entrepreneurship from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹʃɪp/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of entrepreneurship

  • entrepreneurships plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does entrepreneurship mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.

  2. 2

    The quality of being an entrepreneur.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Entrepreneurship in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense quality of being an entrepreneur:

LanguageWords
Frenchentrepreneuriat
GermanUnternehmertum
Portugueseempreendedorismo
Spanishemprendedorismo, espíritu emprendedor, espíritu empresarial, empresarialidad

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does entrepreneurship come from?

From entrepreneur + -ship.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What to look up after entrepreneurship