spaceship
noun
spaceship is spelled S-P-A-C-E-S-H-I-P: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spaceship means “A manned vehicle that flies through space” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of spaceship is spaceships.
How many letters and syllables are in spaceship?
| Letters | 9: S-P-A-C-E-S-H-I-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.3 times per million words; the 18,064th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is spaceship?
Spaceship appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th 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 spaceship?
- US
Spaceship has 2 syllables (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)-Flame,_not_lame-spaceship.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with spaceship
Also written: space ship (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of spaceship
- spaceships plural
- space ship
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does spaceship mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A manned vehicle that flies through space.
- 2
A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
- 3
The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.
- 4
slangA computer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Spaceship in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense vehicle that flies through space:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vaisseau spatial, astronef, spationef |
| German | Raumschiff, Raumfahrzeug |
| Portuguese | nave espacial, espaçonave, astronave |
| Spanish | nave espacial, astronave, cosmonave |
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.