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shippen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English

Syllables
ship-pen
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A stable; a cowhouse.

British usage; Archaic

name

A surname.

name

A township in Cameron County, Pennsylvania, United States.

name

A township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

Etymology

From Middle English schipne, schepne, schüpene, from Old English scypen (“cow-shed, stall, shippen”), from Proto-Germanic *skupīnō (“stall”), diminutive of *skup- (“shed, barn”). Related to shop, shepen.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: schipne, scypen, *skupīnō

Usage

Inflected Forms

shippens (plural) shippon (alternative) shipen (alternative)

Questions

What does shippen mean?
A stable; a cowhouse.
Where does shippen come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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