What it means
- (verb) (authorship) To write under the name of another (especially literary works). “Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.”
- (verb) (authorship) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another. “The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.”
- (noun) Writing for pay without the expectation of receiving credit by name.
Letter analysis
- Ghostwriting contains 12 letters: 3 vowel(s) and 9 consonant(s).
- It uses 9 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 3.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 20.
Sub-words
- thirsting
- ghosting
- gritting
- hoisting
- righting
- rightist
- shirting
- shitting
- shorting
- sighting
- throwing
- twisting
- whitings
- worsting
- writhing
- writings
- girting
- gringos
- growing
- growths
- hitting
- horsing
- hosting
- insight
- nitwits
- origins
- rioting
- rotting
- shoring
- showing
- sighing
- sitting
- sorting
- storing
- stowing
- throngs
- tithing
- tonight
- whiting
- wishing
- witting
- writing
- girths
- goings
- goring
- gringo
- groins
- growth
- hiring
- hosing
- ingots
- intros
- nights
- nitwit
- origin
- rhinos
- rights
- rising
- rowing
Related words
Other 12-letter words
- abbreviating
- abbreviation
- abolitionist
- abominations
- abortionists
- abrasiveness
- abridgements
- abstractedly
- abstractions
- abstractness
- abstruseness
- academically
- academicians
- accelerating
- acceleration
- accelerators
- accentuating
- accentuation
Words starting with GHO
- ghost
- ghosted
- ghosting
- ghostlier
- ghostliest
- ghostliness
- ghostly
- ghosts
- ghostwrite
- ghostwriter
- ghostwriters
- ghostwrites
- ghostwritten
- ghostwrote
- ghoul
- ghoulish
- ghouls
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Words ending with ING
Common questions
What does Ghostwriting mean?
(authorship) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
How many letters are in Ghostwriting?
Ghostwriting has 12 letters.
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