slipway
noun
slipway is spelled S-L-I-P-W-A-Y: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, slipway means “A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of slipway is slipways.
How many letters and syllables are in slipway?
| Letters | 7: S-L-I-P-W-A-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 8 million words; the 85,266th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is slipway?
Slipway appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th 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 slipway?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-slipway.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of slipway
- slipways plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does slipway mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched.
- 2
A slip road.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Slipway in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sloping surface:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cale, cale sèche |
| German | Helling, Stapel, Helge, Helgen |
| Portuguese | dique, rampa de lançamento |
| Spanish | dique, grada |
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 slipway come from?
From slip + way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).