survivorship
"survivorship" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“survivorship” is uncommon English (frequency #58,397 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,397
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being a survivor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-survivorship · survivorship · English
survivorship · rank #58,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,397
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH supine
Nearest frequency peer: supine (-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 “survivorship”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Suggs
Suggs
41,607 corpus weight
- Sumer
Sumer
41,606 corpus weight
- supine
supine
41,605 corpus weight
- survivorship
survivorship
41,604 corpus weight
- Svoboda
Svoboda
41,603 corpus weight
- SWT
SWT
41,602 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “survivorship” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | survivorship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “survivorship” in English
Rare enough to double-check
survivorship is uncommon English at frequency #58,397 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for survivorship in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From survivor + -ship. The correct English form is survivorship, spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-O-R-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1The state of being a survivor.
- 2The number or percentage of young that survive to adulthood.
- 3A right whereby a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in it. It is one of the elements of a joint tenancy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how survivorship appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We therefore seek a method for response-function normalization method which involves manipulating empirical curves that result from unconstrainted empirical fits of the corrected survivorship data.
Etymology
From survivor + -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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).