Which to use
“ship” is a noun and “shut” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #23,693
- “ship” frequency rank
- #41,005
- “shut” frequency rank
- 64698
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ship | shut |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Couple principalement non officiel ou non canonique entre des personnages. | Refermer, fermer ce qui était ouvert, fermer. |
Letter map: ship vs shut
Shared letters muted; letters that set ship and shut apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Part-of-speech tell for ship / shut
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ship is anoun and shutaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64698, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ship is recorded at frequency rank #23,693, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʃip\. shut is at rank #41,005, tagged as averb.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 64698, this pair ranks #75,789 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of ship vs shut
Shared letters: hs. Private to "ship": ip. Private to "shut": tu.
"ship" · 4 letters · shape CCVC · "shut" · 4 letters · shape CCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "ship" and "shut" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "ship" or "shut"?
Useful next steps
You've compared "ship" and "shut". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "ship" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "shut" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #75,789 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ship" and "shut" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "shut vs suu". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #75,789 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.