self-employment
"self-employment" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“self-employment” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act or practice of working for oneself, such as being an independent contractor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | self-employment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “self-employment” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
self-employment is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act or practice of working for oneself, such as being an independent contractor.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for self-employment in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From self- + employment. The correct English form is self-employment, spelled S-E-L-F---E-M-P-L-O-Y-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The act or practice of working for oneself, such as being an independent contractor.
Etymology
From self- + employment.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “self-employment”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-L-F---E-M-P-L-O-Y-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.