stewardship

Name: stewardship, English Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“stewardship” has 18 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,946. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,946
frequency rank, English: 54,294
“S” headwords: 18
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The rank or office of a steward.

Key facts for stewardship
Property	Value
Headword	stewardship
Language	English
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	11
Frequency rank	#21,946
Misspellings tracked	18
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “stewardship” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). stewardship lands here:

#21,946

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around stewardship, anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,946 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for stewardship, with forms such as "setwardship", "sstewardship", and "steawrdship". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English stiwardshepe, equivalent to steward + -ship. The correct English form is stewardship, spelled S-T-E-W-A-R-D-S-H-I-P.

Definition

1
The rank or office of a steward.
2
The act of caring for or improving with time.

Etymology

From Middle English stiwardshepe, equivalent to steward + -ship.

This word in other languages

administración(Español)intendant(Français)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: setwardship,sstewardship,steawrdship,stewadrship,stewarddship,stewardhsip,stewardshhip,stewardshipp,stewardshpi,stewardsihp,stewardsship,stewarrdship,stewarsdhip,stewradship,stewwardship,sttewardship,stweardship,tsewardship

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stewardship - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "stewardship"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stewardship"?

"stewardship" is spelled S-T-E-W-A-R-D-S-H-I-P.

What does "stewardship" mean?

As a noun, "stewardship" means: The rank or office of a steward.

What are common misspellings of "stewardship"?

Common misspellings include "setwardship", "sstewardship", "steawrdship", "stewadrship", "stewarddship". The correct spelling is "stewardship".

What is the origin of the word "stewardship"?

From Middle English stiwardshepe, equivalent to steward + -ship. See the full etymology section above for more details.

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Using “stewardship”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct English spelling is S-T-E-W-A-R-D-S-H-I-P - 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.