ship
shĭp
The verdict
“ship” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,271
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - navio
Corpus desk
Index PT-ship · ship · Portuguese
ship · rank #19,271 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,271
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sereno
Nearest frequency peer: sereno (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “ship”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- romeno
romeno
80,737 corpus weight
- sec
sec
80,733 corpus weight
- sereno
sereno
80,731 corpus weight
- ship
ship
80,730 corpus weight
- sobrancelha
sobrancelha
80,729 corpus weight
- subjacente
subjacente
80,725 corpus weight
What this shows “ship” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ship |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | shĭp |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “ship”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ship (IPA shĭp), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,271 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ship, with forms such as "hsip", "shhip", and "shipp". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "si", "sim", "sic", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ship, spelled S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1navio
- 2nave
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsip
- shhip
- shipp
- shpi
- sihp
- sship
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ship - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ship", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).