prime ministership

noun

"prime-ministership" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“prime ministership” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
18
letters

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

Corpus desk

Index EN-prime-ministership · prime ministership · English

prime ministership · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 18 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for prime ministership
PropertyValue
Headwordprime ministership
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “prime ministership” in English

prime ministershipfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

prime ministership is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The office of a premier or prime minister.".

prime ministership has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From prime minister + -ship. The correct English form is prime ministership, spelled P-R-I-M-E- -M-I-N-I-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    The office of a premier or prime minister.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. This turning point in the evolution of the prime ministership came with the death of Anne in 1714 and the accession of George I.

Etymology

From prime minister + -ship.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prime ministership"?
"prime ministership" is spelled P-R-I-M-E- -M-I-N-I-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-P.
What does "prime ministership" mean?
As a noun, "prime ministership" means: The office of a premier or prime minister.
What is the origin of the word "prime ministership"?
From prime minister + -ship. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list