favouritism
"favouritism" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“favouritism” is uncommon English (frequency #65,112 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,112
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
Corpus desk
Index EN-favouritism · favouritism · English
favouritism · rank #65,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,112
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH favorability
Nearest frequency peer: favorability (-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 “favouritism”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- extortionate
extortionate
34,896 corpus weight
- FACS
FACS
34,894 corpus weight
- falsity
falsity
34,892 corpus weight
- favorability
favorability
34,890 corpus weight
- favouritism
favouritism
34,889 corpus weight
- fivefold
fivefold
34,883 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “favouritism” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | favouritism |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “favouritism” in English
Rare enough to double-check
favouritism is uncommon English at frequency #65,112 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.".
No misspelling variants are generated for favouritism in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From favourit(e) + -ism. The correct English form is favouritism, spelled F-A-V-O-U-R-I-T-I-S-M.
Definition
- 1The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how favouritism appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heidi Alexander has experience of London. As Transport Secretary, she will also be under pressure not to show favouritism to the capital.
Etymology
From favourit(e) + -ism.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).