penmanship
"penmanship" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“penmanship” is uncommon English (frequency #56,353 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,353
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of handwriting or chirography, one's own style of writing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-penmanship · penmanship · English
penmanship · rank #56,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,353
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pav
Nearest frequency peer: pav (-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 “penmanship”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pata
pata
43,651 corpus weight
- patriarchate
patriarchate
43,650 corpus weight
- pav
pav
43,649 corpus weight
- penmanship
penmanship
43,648 corpus weight
- perc
perc
43,647 corpus weight
- Perce
Perce
43,646 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “penmanship” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penmanship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “penmanship” in English
Rare enough to double-check
penmanship is uncommon English at frequency #56,353 among 4,417 “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 penmanship, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pen + -manship. The correct English form is penmanship, spelled P-E-N-M-A-N-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1Synonym of handwriting or chirography, one's own style of writing.
- 2Synonym of calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing.
Etymology
From pen + -manship.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).