shillelagh
shil·le·lagh/ʃəˈleɪli/noun
shillelagh is spelled S-H-I-L-L-E-L-A-G-H, 3 syllables: shil·le·lagh. The wrong spelling people search most is shelele: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 128 of all searches for the word. Shillelagh is a noun meaning “A wooden (traditionally blackthorn (sloe) wood) club ending with a large knob”. The plural of shillelagh is shillelaghs.
How many letters and syllables are in shillelagh?
| Letters | 10: S-H-I-L-L-E-L-A-G-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: shil·le·lagh |
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, shelele, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell shillelagh?
Shillelagh is spelled S-H-I-L-L-E-L-A-G-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 128 of the searches for shillelagh in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is shillelagh?
Shillelagh appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce shillelagh?
- US /ʃəˈleɪli/
Shillelagh has 3 syllables, split shil·le·lagh in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-shillelagh.oga, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-shillelagh.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with shillelagh?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as shillelagh from its last stressed vowel (/eɪli/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of shillelagh
- shillelaghs plural
- shillala
- shillalah
- shillelah
- shillalagh
- shillaly
- shillely
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does shillelagh mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
IrelandA wooden (traditionally blackthorn (sloe) wood) club ending with a large knob.
- 2
Any cudgel, whether or not of Irish origin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does shillelagh come from?
From Irish sail éille (“shillelagh”, literally “cudgel of a thong”), altered to match the name of the village of Shillelagh (from Irish Síol Éalaigh (literally “descendants of Éalach”), because the forest near it provided wood from which such clubs could be made.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).