Slipway

Definition: Slipway

Slipway

Noun

1. Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired.

Synonyms: Slipway

Synonyms: shipway (n), ways (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Slipway. (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Slipway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slipway" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	43	52,181

Expression using "slipway": building slipway. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "slipway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏دعامة (abutment, armature, backlog, beam, brace, crutch, hold, leg, pier, pillar, prop, shore, slip, staff, stanchion, stick, stock, strut, support). (various references)

Bulgarian		хелинг (slip). (various references)

Danish		stabel (deck, log deck, mass, pile, piles, slade, stack, stack of disks, stockpile), ophalerbedding (slade), byggebedding (building berth, building slip, building slipway, slip, stocks), bedding (building berth, building slip, building slipway, slade, slip, stocks). (various references)

Dutch		sleephelling (slade), scheepshelling (building berth, building slip, building slipway, slade, slip, stocks), helling (acclivity, hillside, slope), glijdbaan (slade). (various references)

Finnish		telat (stocks). (various references)

French		cale de lancement (slade), cale de halage (slade), cale de construction (building slip, building slipway, slip), cale (slip). (various references)

German		Gleitbahn (dray-road, guide track, guide way, rolling guide, slide, slide way, slide ways, slideway, sliding guide, slipper, timber slide, way, ways). (various references)

Greek		κεκλιμένο επίπεδο καθελκύσεως (slade), κεκλιμένο επίπεδο (inclined plane, slade), ράμπα καθελκύσεως (slade), ράμπα (ramp). (various references)

Italian		scivolo (chute, sashays, slide), scalo di costruzione (building berth, building slip, building slipway, slip, stocks), scalo di alaggio (slade), scalo da costruzione (slade), scalo (airport, call). (various references)

Manx		shliawinane (chute, glide, runner, shoot, slide). (various references)

Pig Latin		ipwayslay

Russian		судоподъемный эллинг, слип. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		navoz na šine. (various references)

Spanish		varadero (slade), grada (Harrow, Shipway, step, tier). (various references)

Swedish		slip (slip). (various references)

Turkish		kızak (carrier, chock, coaster, cradle, drag, gantry, gauntry, Shipway, skid, sled, sledge, slide, stock, toboggan), gemi kızağı (cradle, Shipway, slip). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "slipway": slipways. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Slipway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Plioway. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: waspily.
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-p-s-w-y"
	-1 letter: pilaws.
	-2 letters: lapis, pails, palsy, pawls, pilaw, plays, spail, splay, swail, wails, waspy, wispy, yawls, yawps.
	-3 letters: ails, alps, awls, laps, laws, lays, lipa, lips, lisp, pail, pals, paly, pawl, paws, pays, pial, pias, pily, play, pyas, sail, salp, sial, slap, slaw, slay, slip, spay, swap, sway, syli, wail, waly, waps, wasp, ways.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-p-s-w-y"
	+1 letter: slipways, spillway.
	+2 letters: spillways, waspishly.
	+4 letters: playwrights.
	+5 letters: playwritings.
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