shipway

Other forms of shipway

plural

shipways·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shipway

What does shipway mean?

shipway means "structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shipway?

shipway has 2 syllables: ship-way. The stress falls on "ship".

What is another word for shipway?

Close synonyms include ways, slipway, ship canal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shipway a common word?

shipway is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.