starship
\ˈstɑɹ.ˌʃɪp\
The verdict
“starship” is uncommon French (frequency #76,147 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,147
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaisseau interstellaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-starship · starship · French
starship · rank #76,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,147
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH squatters
Nearest frequency peer: squatters (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « starship »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sprache
Sprache
23,858 corpus weight
- squadron
squadron
23,856 corpus weight
- squatters
squatters
23,855 corpus weight
- starship
starship
23,854 corpus weight
- steal
steal
23,852 corpus weight
- streetwear
streetwear
23,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « starship » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | starship |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈstɑɹ.ˌʃɪp\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « starship » en français
Rare enough to double-check
starship is uncommon French at frequency #76,147 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈstɑɹ.ˌʃɪp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vaisseau interstellaire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for starship, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is starship, spelled S-T-A-R-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1Vaisseau interstellaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how starship appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Starship troopers, roman de Robert A. Heinlein
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).