Shipp
/ʃɪp/
"shipp" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Shipp” is uncommon English (frequency #53,851 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,851
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname transferred from the common noun referring to someone who worked on a ship
Corpus desk
Index EN-shipp · Shipp · English
Shipp · rank #53,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,851
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sheepishly
Nearest frequency peer: sheepishly (-2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Shipp”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- semiotics
semiotics
46,155 corpus weight
- serfdom
serfdom
46,154 corpus weight
- sheepishly
sheepishly
46,152 corpus weight
- Shipp
Shipp
46,150 corpus weight
- Shukla
Shukla
46,147 corpus weight
- sippy
sippy
46,146 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Shipp” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shipp |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ʃɪp/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Shipp” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Shipp is uncommon English at frequency #53,851 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ʃɪp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname transferred from the common noun referring to someone who worked on a ship".
Shipp doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Occupational surname, from ship. The correct English form is Shipp, spelled S-H-I-P-P.
Definition
- 1A surname transferred from the common noun referring to someone who worked on a ship
Etymology
Occupational surname, from 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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