ships
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The verdict
“ships” is uncommon German (frequency #97,698 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,698
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs ship
Corpus desk
Index DE-ships · ships · German
ships · rank #97,698 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,698
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Shiatsu
Nearest frequency peer: Shiatsu (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „ships“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Shanty
Shanty
2,306 corpus weight
- Shaws
Shaws
2,305 corpus weight
- Shiatsu
Shiatsu
2,304 corpus weight
- ships
ships
2,303 corpus weight
- Showmaster
Showmaster
2,302 corpus weight
- sickerte
sickerte
2,300 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ships“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ships |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ships“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ships is uncommon German at frequency #97,698 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs ship".
ships has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is ships, spelled S-H-I-P-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs 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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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