professorship

noun

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"professorship" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“professorship” has 19 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,850. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,850
frequency rank, English
4,417
“P” headwords
19
tracked misspellings

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

Corpus desk

Index EN-professorship · professorship · English

professorship · rank #40,850 · 19 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #40,850
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 19 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,417
  • PHOTO-FINISH probationary

Nearest frequency peer: probationary (-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 “professorship”

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

corpus weight

What this shows “professorship” 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 professorship
PropertyValue
Headwordprofessorship
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Frequency rank#40,850
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “professorship”

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).professorshiplands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Same rarity band neighbours include “probationary” (#40,849), “promontory” (#40,851), “proportioned” (#40,852). Among 4,417 “P” headwords, “professorship” is #40,850. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 19 spelling variants around professorship, anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,850 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The office of a professor.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for professorship, with forms such as "porfessorship", "pprofessorship", and "prfoessorship". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From professor + -ship. The correct English form is professorship, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-O-R-S-H-I-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    The office of a professor.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. And as regards histories of art, they are quite valueless to you unless you are seeking the ostentatious oblivion of an art professorship.
  2. She earned a professorship at Los Angeles City College, and taught theatre there for two years.

Etymology

From professor + -ship.

Synonyms

professorate

This word in other languages

cátedra(Español)Professur(Deutsch)magistério(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porfessorship
  • pprofessorship
  • prfoessorship
  • proefssorship
  • profesorship
  • profesosrship
  • professorhsip
  • professorrship
  • professorshhip
  • professorshipp
  • professorshpi
  • professorsihp
  • professorsship
  • professosrhip
  • professroship
  • proffessorship
  • profsesorship
  • prrofessorship
  • rpofessorship

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of professorship - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

porfessorship2pprofessorship1prfoessorship2proefssorship2profesorship1profesosrship2professorhsip2professorrship1
Edit distance from "professorship"

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 "professorship"?
"professorship" is spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-O-R-S-H-I-P.
What does "professorship" mean?
As a noun, "professorship" means: The office of a professor.
What are common misspellings of "professorship"?
Common misspellings include "porfessorship", "pprofessorship", "prfoessorship", "proefssorship", "profesorship". The correct spelling is "professorship".
What is the origin of the word "professorship"?
From professor + -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 "professorship", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list