ship
French, noun/ʃip/
ship is spelled S-H-I-P (4 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ship is a French masculine noun meaning “ship” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couple principalement non officiel ou non canonique entre des personnages”.
What does ship mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineslangship
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Couple principalement non officiel ou non canonique entre des personnages.
verb: 1. Créer un couple non officiel ou non canonique entre des personnages.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ship
- ships plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ship?
- /ʃip/
- \ʃip\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ship in French?
ship appears 1.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).