intrapreneurship
/ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.ʃɪp/noun
intrapreneurship is a noun meaning “The practice of applying entrepreneurial skills and approaches within an established company” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-R-A-P-R-E-N-E-U-R-S-H-I-P and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does intrapreneurship mean?
noun
- 1
The practice of applying entrepreneurial skills and approaches within an established company.
- 2
Being creative with ideas and procedures
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce intrapreneurship?
- UK /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː.ʃɪp/
- US /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.ʃɪp/
- US /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ.ʃɪp/
Intrapreneurship has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is intrapreneurship?
Intrapreneurship appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
Intrapreneurship in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense practice of applying entrepreneurial skills and approaches within an established:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | intrapreunariat |
| Spanish | intraemprendimiento |
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 intrapreneurship come from?
Blend of intra- + entrepreneurship.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).