shive
/ʃaɪv/noun
shive is spelled S-H-I-V-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shive means “A slice, especially of bread” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shive is shives.
How many letters and syllables are in shive?
| Letters | 5: S-H-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 22 million words; the 143,405th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is shive?
Shive appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce shive?
- /ʃaɪv/
As a noun (“Alternative form of shiv”): /ʃɪv/.
As a noun (“Alternative spelling of shiva”): /ˈʃɪvə/.
Shive has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-shive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with shive?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as shive.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: hives.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of shive
- shives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does shive mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A slice, especially of bread.
- 2
obsoleteA sheave.
- 3
A beam or plank of split wood.
- 4
A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
- 5
A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
- 6
A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
- 7
A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
- 8
A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
- 9
Alternative form of shiv.
- 10
Alternative spelling of shiva.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Shive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Scheibe, Schäbe , Laufrolle, Seilscheibe , Schindel, Brettschindel |
| French | chènevotte |
| Spanish | cañamiza, agramiza |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does shive come from?
A parallel form of sheave, from Middle English schyve, from Proto-West Germanic *skībā, from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ, presumably through an Old English *sċīfe (though it is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), brauðskífa (“slice of bread”) (whence Danish skive (“disc, slice”)), Dutch schijf (“disc, slice”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).