librarianship
"librarianship" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“librarianship” is uncommon English (frequency #61,591 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,591
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of operating of a library; service as a librarian
Corpus desk
Index EN-librarianship · librarianship · English
librarianship · rank #61,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,591
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lep
Nearest frequency peer: lep (-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 “librarianship”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- legalistic
legalistic
38,414 corpus weight
- Legge
Legge
38,413 corpus weight
- legroom
legroom
38,412 corpus weight
- lep
lep
38,411 corpus weight
- librariansh…
librarianship
38,410 corpus weight
- lightspeed
lightspeed
38,408 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “librarianship” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | librarianship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #61,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “librarianship” in English
Rare enough to double-check
librarianship is uncommon English at frequency #61,591 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of operating of a library; service as a librarian".
No generated misspelling entries exist for librarianship in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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 librarian + -ship. The correct English form is librarianship, spelled L-I-B-R-A-R-I-A-N-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1The act of operating of a library; service as a librarian
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how librarianship appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For several years, Booklegger has been serving readers interested in radical librarianship, alternative books sources, and feminism, and now it has published a guide called The Passionate Perils of Publishing.
Etymology
From librarian + -ship.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).