receivership
noun
receivership is spelled R-E-C-E-I-V-E-R-S-H-I-P. The wrong spelling people search most is recivership: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 32 of all searches for the word. Receivership is a noun meaning “The office and duties of a receiver”. The plural of receivership is receiverships.
How many letters and syllables are in receivership?
| Letters | 12: R-E-C-E-I-V-E-R-S-H-I-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 39,832nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, recivership, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell receivership?
Receivership is spelled R-E-C-E-I-V-E-R-S-H-I-P. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 32 of the searches for receivership in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is receivership?
Receivership appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce receivership?
- US
Receivership has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-receivership.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of receivership
- receiverships plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does receivership mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The office and duties of a receiver.
- 2
The state of being under the control of a receiver.
- 3
A form of trusteeship of bankruptcy administration in which a receiver is appointed to run the company for the benefit of the creditors.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Receivership in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mise sous séquestre , administration-séquestre |
| German | Konkursverwaltung |
| Portuguese | administração judicial |
| Spanish | sindicatura |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does receivership come from?
From receiver + -ship.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).