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fellowship

fel·low·ship/ˈfɛl.ə.ʃɪp/noun, verb

fellowship is spelled F-E-L-L-O-W-S-H-I-P: 10 letters and 3 syllables (fel·low·ship). It appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fellowship means “A company of people that share the same interest or aim” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of fellowship is fellowships.

How many letters and syllables are in fellowship?

Letters10: F-E-L-L-O-W-S-H-I-P
Syllables3: fel·low·ship
In writing7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is fellowship?

Fellowship appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th 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 fellowship?

  • UK /ˈfɛl.ə(ʊ).ʃɪp/
  • US /ˈfɛl.ə.ʃɪp/
  • US /ˈfɛl.oʊ.ʃɪp/

Fellowship has 3 syllables, split fel·low·ship in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-fellowship.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of fellowship

  • fellowships plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • fellowshipping participle, present
  • fellowshiping US, participle, present
  • fellowshipped participle, past
  • fellowshiped US, participle, past

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

What does fellowship mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A company of people that share the same interest or aim.

    The Fellowship of the Ring

  2. 2

    datedCompany, companions; a group of people or things following another.

  3. 3

    A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.

    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

  4. 4

    A merit-based scholarship.

  5. 5

    A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.

  6. 6

    A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.

  7. 7

    archaicThe proportional division of profit and loss among partners.

verb

  1. 1

    To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use.

    The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.

  2. 2

    USTo join in fellowship; to associate with.

    The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.

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

Fellowship in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconfrérie, fraternité (Company of people that shares the same interest…), camaraderie (A feeling of friendship), bourse, bourse d'étude, bourse d'études (A merit-based scholarship)
GermanGemeinschaft, Kameradschaft (Company of people that shares the same interest…)
Portugueseirmandade (Company of people that shares the same interest…)
Spanishconfraternidad (Company of people that shares the same interest…), beca (A merit-based scholarship)

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 fellowship come from?

From Middle English felowschipe, felawshipe, felaȝschyp, equivalent to fellow + -ship; or perhaps adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr (“fellowship”). Compare Icelandic félagsskapur (“companionship, company, community”), Danish fællesskab (“fellowship”), Norwegian fellesskap (“fellowship”), and Old Swedish fælaghskap (“fellowship”)

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

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