how to pronounce ship

/ʃɪp/

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ship is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of ship in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… we need to ship for the future …”

meaning of ship

A ship is a vessel that travels on water.

ship frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word ship occurs in english on average 47.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics ship can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that ship can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;