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sistership

noun

sistership is spelled S-I-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-P: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sistership means “The role or position of sister” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sistership is sisterships.

How many letters and syllables are in sistership?

Letters10: S-I-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-P
In writingabout once in every 93 million words; the 309,272nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is sistership?

Sistership appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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).

Forms of sistership

  • sisterships plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sistership mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The role or position of sister.

  2. 2

    Alternative form of sister ship.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Sistership in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense role or position of sister:

LanguageWords
GermanSchwesterschaft

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 sistership come from?

From sister + -ship.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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