ships
/ʃɪps/
The verdict
“ships” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,294 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,294
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de ship.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ships · ships · Spanish
ships · rank #67,294 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,294
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH shirt
Nearest frequency peer: shirt (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “ships”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sharing
sharing
32,709 corpus weight
- ships
ships
32,707 corpus weight
- shirt
shirt
32,706 corpus weight
- sibila
sibila
32,705 corpus weight
- sicilianos
sicilianos
32,704 corpus weight
- simbionte
simbionte
32,703 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ships” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ships |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɪps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ships” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ships is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,294 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʃɪps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de ship.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ships in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is ships, spelled S-H-I-P-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de ship.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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