premiership
"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
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playlist
87,170 corpus weight
- PLC
PLC
87,169 corpus weight
- possesses
possesses
87,168 corpus weight
- precinct
precinct
87,166 corpus weight
- premiership
premiership
87,165 corpus weight
- proliferati…
proliferation
87,163 corpus weight
What this shows “premiership” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | premiership |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “premiership”
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
- 1The office of a premier or prime minister.
- 2The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how premiership appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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…
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.
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.
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
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).