salesmanship
"salesmanship" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“salesmanship” is uncommon English (frequency #76,294 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,294
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The skills and knowledge of how to sell.
Corpus desk
Index EN-salesmanship · salesmanship · English
salesmanship · rank #76,294 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,294
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Salish
Nearest frequency peer: Salish (+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 “salesmanship”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- rutile
rutile
23,714 corpus weight
- Saakashvili
Saakashvili
23,712 corpus weight
- sadhana
sadhana
23,709 corpus weight
- salesmanship
salesmanship
23,707 corpus weight
- Salish
Salish
23,706 corpus weight
- sanctus
sanctus
23,701 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “salesmanship” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salesmanship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “salesmanship” in English
Rare enough to double-check
salesmanship is uncommon English at frequency #76,294 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for salesmanship in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From salesman + -ship. The correct English form is salesmanship, spelled S-A-L-E-S-M-A-N-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1The skills and knowledge of how to sell.
- 2A position as salesman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salesmanship appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The professional dealer's salesmanship was incredible, I was just looking but he managed to convince me to buy three times what I was considering buying over the next six months.
[…] this man worked at his business all the harder, with the brightness of the home-joys fading. But it went very hard with him, more than once, when he made a good stroke of salesmanship, to have to put the money in the bottom of his pocket, without even rubbing a bright half-crown, and saying to himself, “I have a’most a mind to give this to Mary.”
Etymology
From salesman + -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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).