ships
/ʃɪps/
"ships" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ships” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,762. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,762
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of ship
Corpus desk
Index EN-ships · ships · English
ships · rank #2,762 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,762
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shame
Nearest frequency peer: shame (-1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “ships”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- roads
roads
97,242 corpus weight
- roof
roof
97,241 corpus weight
- shame
shame
97,240 corpus weight
- ships
ships
97,239 corpus weight
- somewhat
somewhat
97,238 corpus weight
- staying
staying
97,237 corpus weight
What this shows “ships” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ships |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɪps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ships”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ships (IPA /ʃɪps/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,762 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of ship".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ships, with forms such as "hsips", "shhips", and "shipps". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sip", "sis", "SPS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is ships, spelled S-H-I-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of ship
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsips
- shhips
- shipps
- shipss
- shisp
- shpis
- sihps
- sships
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ships - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ships", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).