English homophones
schilling/shilling
"shilling" (#23,393 written frequency) beats "schilling" (#37,215) in this 2-word /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "shilling" leads at #23,393, with "schilling" trailing at #37,215.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "schilling" is 9 letters, "shilling" is 8; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across schilling, shilling: ghilns. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
schilling
9 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCCVCCVCC
Inventory cghilns · private c
shilling
8 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVCCVCC
Inventory ghilns · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "schilling" when you mean: The old currency of Austria, divided into 100 groschen.
- Write "shilling" when you mean: A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old…
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
noun · /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/ · #23,393 frequency
A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
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- "shilling" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #23,393 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: sewing · sowing. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "schilling, shilling" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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