premiership

noun

"premiership" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“premiership” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,836. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,836
frequency rank, English
4,417
“P” headwords
17
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The office of a premier or prime minister.

Corpus desk

Index EN-premiership · premiership · English

premiership · rank #12,836 · 17 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,836
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,417
  • PHOTO-FINISH precinct

Nearest frequency peer: precinct (-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.

Rank peers near misspelling magnet “premiership”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “premiership” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for premiership
PropertyValue
Headwordpremiership
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#12,836
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “premiership”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).premiershiplands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “precinct” (#12,835), “proliferation” (#12,838), “possesses” (#12,833). Among 4,417 “P” headwords, “premiership” is #12,836. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around premiership, anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,836 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for premiership, with forms such as "permiership", "ppremiership", and "preimership". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Etymologically, the entry records: From premier + -ship. The correct English form is premiership, spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R-S-H-I-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    The office of a premier or prime minister.
  2. 2
    The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how premiership appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. There is a familiar pattern that has come to define Theresa May’s premiership. Encouraging rhetoric gets periodically wheeled out: the pledges to ease the burden on the “just about managing”; the promises to fight the “burning injustices” of social inequality. But then a few weeks later, the chancellor gets up at the dispatch box to deliver a budget or an…
  2. And for the EU a Johnson premiership would mean “a mini-Trump across the Channel, dedicated to its sabotage”. Britain would become “a hostile principality, built on social, fiscal and environmental deregulation.”

Etymology

From premier + -ship.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • permiership
  • ppremiership
  • preimership
  • premeirship
  • premierhsip
  • premierrship
  • premiershhip
  • premiershipp
  • premiershpi
  • premiersihp
  • premiersship
  • premiesrhip
  • premireship
  • premmiership
  • prmeiership
  • prremiership
  • rpemiership

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of premiership - 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.

permiership2ppremiership1preimership2premeirship2premierhsip2premierrship1premiershhip1premiershipp1
Edit distance from "premiership"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "premiership"?
"premiership" is spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R-S-H-I-P.
What does "premiership" mean?
As a noun, "premiership" means: The office of a premier or prime minister.
What are common misspellings of "premiership"?
Common misspellings include "permiership", "ppremiership", "preimership", "premeirship", "premierhsip". The correct spelling is "premiership".
What is the origin of the word "premiership"?
From premier + -ship. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "premiership", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list