peacebuilding
"peacebuilding" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“peacebuilding” is uncommon English (frequency #59,613 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,613
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The creation of peace or the conditions for peace.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peacebuilding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #59,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peacebuilding” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
peacebuilding is uncommon English at frequency #59,613 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for peacebuilding, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From peace + building. The correct English form is peacebuilding, spelled P-E-A-C-E-B-U-I-L-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The creation of peace or the conditions for peace.
- 2The reconstruction of physical and societal institutions after a conflict
Etymology
From peace + building.
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 “peacebuilding”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-E-A-C-E-B-U-I-L-D-I-N-G - 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.