membership
"membership" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“membership” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #3,182 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,182
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The state of being a member of a group or organization.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | membership |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “membership” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for membership is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #3,182 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for membership, with forms such as "emmbership", "mebmership", and "membbership". 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. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From member + -ship. The correct English form is membership, spelled M-E-M-B-E-R-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1The state of being a member of a group or organization.
- 2The body of members of an organization.
- 3The fact of being a member of a set.
Etymology
From member + -ship.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emmbership,mebmership,membbership,memberhsip,memberrship,membershhip,membershipp,membershpi,membersihp,membersship,membesrhip,membreship,memebrship,memmbership,mmebership,mmembership
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of membership - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “membership”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-E-M-B-E-R-S-H-I-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.