shirts

/\ˈʃɝts\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#12,257

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

shirts is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de shirt. Pronounced \ˈʃɝts\. Often confused with shit and soirs.

Key facts for shirts
PropertyValue
Headwordshirts
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈʃɝts\
Letters6
Frequency rank#12,257
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of shirts in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for shirts is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈʃɝts\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,257 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de shirt.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for shirts, with forms such as "hsirts", "shhirts", and "shirrts". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "shit", "soirs", "short", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is shirts, spelled S-H-I-R-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de shirt.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: hsirts,shhirts,shirrts,shirst,shirtss,shirtts,shitrs,shrits,sihrts,sshirts

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for shirts

Misspelling Variants of "shirts"

hsirts6shhirts7shirrts7shirst6shirtss7shirtts7shitrs6shrits6
Misspelling Variants of "shirts"

Frequency rank: #12,257 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "shirts"?
"shirts" is spelled S-H-I-R-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈʃɝts\.
What does "shirts" mean?
As a noun, "shirts" means: Pluriel de shirt.
What words are commonly confused with "shirts"?
"shirts" is commonly confused with "shit", "soirs", "short". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "shirts"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "shirts" is \ˈʃɝts\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "shirts" come from?
"shirts" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.