preeminence
/pɹiˈɛ.mɪˌnəns/noun
preeminence is spelled P-R-E-E-M-I-N-E-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is preminence: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 34 of all searches for the word. Preeminence is a noun meaning “The status of being preeminent, dominant or ascendant”. The plural of preeminence is preeminences.
How many letters and syllables are in preeminence?
| Letters | 11: P-R-E-E-M-I-N-E-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 8 million words; the 82,325th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, preminence, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell preeminence?
Preeminence is spelled P-R-E-E-M-I-N-E-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 35 of the searches for preeminence in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is preeminence?
Preeminence appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce preeminence?
- US /pɹiˈɛ.mɪˌnəns/
Preeminence has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-preeminence.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with preeminence
Also written: pre-eminence (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of preeminence
- preeminences plural
- pre-eminence
- preëminence
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does preeminence mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The status of being preeminent, dominant or ascendant.
- 2
High importance; superiority.
noun
- 1
rareRare spelling of preeminence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Preeminence in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense status of being preeminent:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | prééminence |
| Portuguese | preeminência |
| Spanish | preeminencia, prestancia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does preeminence come from?
From Latin praeēminēntia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).