proprietorship
"proprietorship" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“proprietorship” is uncommon English (frequency #60,398 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,398
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being a proprietor; ownership.
Corpus desk
Index EN-proprietorship · proprietorship · English
proprietorship · rank #60,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,398
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH proclivity
Nearest frequency peer: proclivity (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “proprietorship”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- probity
probity
39,606 corpus weight
- proboscis
proboscis
39,605 corpus weight
- proclivity
proclivity
39,604 corpus weight
- proprietors…
proprietorship
39,603 corpus weight
- punto
punto
39,601 corpus weight
- purser
purser
39,600 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “proprietorship” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proprietorship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #60,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “proprietorship” in English
Rare enough to double-check
proprietorship is uncommon English at frequency #60,398 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being a proprietor; ownership.".
Zero misspellings are on record for proprietorship in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From proprietor + -ship. The correct English form is proprietorship, spelled P-R-O-P-R-I-E-T-O-R-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1The state of being a proprietor; ownership.
Etymology
From proprietor + -ship.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).