cargo ship
"cargo-ship" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cargo ship” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A ship that carries cargo.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cargo-ship · cargo ship · English
cargo ship · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cargo ship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cargo ship” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cargo ship is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A ship that carries cargo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cargo ship in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is cargo ship, spelled C-A-R-G-O- -S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1A ship that carries cargo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cargo ship appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: cargo vessel
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.