godship
"godship" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“godship” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
Corpus desk
Index EN-godship · godship · English
godship · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | godship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “godship” in English
Rare enough to double-check
godship is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for godship in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From god + -ship. The correct English form is godship, spelled G-O-D-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
- 2A term of address to a deity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how godship appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Because there was a Godship, a higher degree than hers, she was not content.
Emerson's vision of man coming into his godship through the conquest of nature reads suspiciously like an apology for westward expansion.
Etymology
From god + -ship.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.