shish
/ʃɪʃ/
"shish" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shish” is uncommon English (frequency #90,986 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,986
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Used to request quiet; similar to shh.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shish · shish · English
shish · rank #90,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,986
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sifu
Nearest frequency peer: sifu (+3 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 “shish”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Shashank
Shashank
9,021 corpus weight
- sheepshead
sheepshead
9,019 corpus weight
- shish
shish
9,015 corpus weight
- sifu
sifu
9,012 corpus weight
- sigmoid
sigmoid
9,010 corpus weight
- signboard
signboard
9,009 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shish” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ʃɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shish” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shish is uncommon English at frequency #90,986 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /ʃɪʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Used to request quiet; similar to shh.".
shish has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Phonetic alteration of shush. The correct English form is shish, spelled S-H-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Used to request quiet; similar to shh.
Etymology
Phonetic alteration of shush.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).