piece of shit
"piece-of-shit" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“piece of shit” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A bad thing; an object of poor quality.
Corpus desk
Index EN-piece-of-shit · piece of shit · English
piece of shit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | piece of shit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “piece of shit” in English
Rare enough to double-check
piece of shit is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
piece of shit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is piece of shit, spelled P-I-E-C-E- -O-F- -S-H-I-T.
Definition
- 1A bad thing; an object of poor quality.
- 2A despicable person.
- 3Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, shit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piece of shit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This shirt is a piece of shit.
Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true
Synonyms
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.