statesmanship
"statesmanship" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“statesmanship” is uncommon English (frequency #73,655 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,655
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The skill of being a good statesman, the ability to perform well in political office.
Corpus desk
Index EN-statesmanship · statesmanship · English
statesmanship · rank #73,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,655
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Stephanopoulos
Nearest frequency peer: Stephanopoulos (+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 “statesmanship”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sparkler
sparkler
26,351 corpus weight
- sputter
sputter
26,350 corpus weight
- statesmansh…
statesmanship
26,346 corpus weight
- Stephanopou…
Stephanopoulos
26,345 corpus weight
- stiffly
stiffly
26,343 corpus weight
- stigmatize
stigmatize
26,342 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “statesmanship” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | statesmanship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #73,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “statesmanship” in English
Rare enough to double-check
statesmanship is uncommon English at frequency #73,655 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The skill of being a good statesman, the ability to perform well in political office.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for statesmanship, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From statesman + -ship. The correct English form is statesmanship, spelled S-T-A-T-E-S-M-A-N-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1The skill of being a good statesman, the ability to perform well in political office.
Etymology
From statesman + -ship.
Synonyms
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); 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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).