-manship
"manship" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“-manship” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a suffix - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Expertise, involvement, or special status in an area.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -manship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “-manship” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for -manship is 8 letters long, classified as a suffix. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Expertise, involvement, or special status in an area.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for -manship, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Combination of -man and -ship. The correct English form is -manship, spelled --M-A-N-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1Expertise, involvement, or special status in an area.
Etymology
Combination of -man and -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.
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Using “-manship”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is --M-A-N-S-H-I-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.