governorship
"governorship" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“governorship” has 19 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,015. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,015
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The office, or the term of a governor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-governorship · governorship · English
governorship · rank #32,015 · 19 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,015
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gothenburg
Nearest frequency peer: Gothenburg (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “governorship”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- godmother
godmother
67,989 corpus weight
- Gothenburg
Gothenburg
67,987 corpus weight
- governorship
governorship
67,986 corpus weight
- Graf
Graf
67,985 corpus weight
- grunts
grunts
67,984 corpus weight
- Guadalupe
Guadalupe
67,983 corpus weight
What this shows “governorship” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | governorship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #32,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “governorship”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around governorship, anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,015 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The office, or the term of a governor.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for governorship, with forms such as "ggovernorship", "goevrnorship", and "govenrorship". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From governor + -ship. The correct English form is governorship, spelled G-O-V-E-R-N-O-R-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1The office, or the term of a governor.
Etymology
From governor + -ship.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggovernorship
- goevrnorship
- govenrorship
- governnorship
- governorhsip
- governorrship
- governorshhip
- governorshipp
- governorshpi
- governorsihp
- governorsship
- governosrhip
- governroship
- goveronrship
- goverrnorship
- govrenorship
- govvernorship
- gvoernorship
- ogvernorship
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of governorship - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "governorship", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).