Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

survivorship

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.42 in modern English

Syllables: sur-vivor-ship
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state of being a survivor.

Uncountable

noun

The number or percentage of young that survive to adulthood.

Uncountable

noun

A 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.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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

Etymology tree English survivor Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English survivorship From survivor + -ship.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

survivorships (plural)

Phrases

presumption of survivorship survivorship bias

Frequently Paired Words

tenancy

Questions

What does survivorship mean?: The state of being a survivor.
Where does survivorship come from?: Etymology tree English survivor Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English survivorship From survivor + -ship.

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