# shingle

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/ · frequency rank #29,835

## Definitions
1. A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
2. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3. A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
4. A word-based n-gram.

## Etymology
From Middle English shyngel, alteration of Old English sċindel, from Proto-West Germanic *skindulā, borrowed from Late Latin scindula, from Latin scandula, from Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of shindle.

## Easily confused with
- **single** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shingle-vs-single)
- **singly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shingle-vs-singly)
- **singles** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shingle-vs-singles)
- **spindle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shingle-vs-spindle)
- **singlet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shingle-vs-singlet)
- **swindle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shingle-vs-swindle)
- **shingles** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shingle-vs-shingles)
- **shine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shine-vs-shingle)

## Common misspellings (11)
`hsingle`, `shhingle`, `shignle`, `shingel`, `shinggle`, `shinglle`, `shinlge`, `shinngle`, `shnigle`, `sihngle`, `sshingle`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/shingle