ripshit

adj

"ripshit" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“ripshit” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enraged or otherwise highly emotional.

Corpus desk

Index EN-ripshit · ripshit · English

ripshit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "R" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for ripshit
PropertyValue
Headwordripshit
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “ripshit” in English

ripshitranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ripshit is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

ripshit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is ripshit, spelled R-I-P-S-H-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Enraged or otherwise highly emotional.
  2. 2
    Drunk.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ripshit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I couldn't understand it, but it was like Benny alternated between humbling himself and pleading, and then getting really ripshit furious and yelling with the red under his eyes glaring.
  2. “Hey, warm sun, cool ocean breezes, getting ripshit on ham.” [Laughs] “Might you say we're getting "hammered"?” “Oh! Nice one.” [Laughs] “This was a great idea, Frank. Great idea.” “This is 90-proof ham.”

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ripshit"?
"ripshit" is spelled R-I-P-S-H-I-T.
What does "ripshit" mean?
As an adjective, "ripshit" means: Enraged or otherwise highly emotional.
What language does "ripshit" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list