shove ha'penny
/ˌʃʌv ˈheɪp(ə)ni/
"shove-ha-penny" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shove ha'penny” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A game, traditionally played in pubs in Great Britain, in which players attempt to push coins so that they land between marked boundaries.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shove-ha-penny · shove ha'penny · English
shove ha'penny · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shove ha'penny |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌʃʌv ˈheɪp(ə)ni/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shove ha'penny” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shove ha'penny is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌʃʌv ˈheɪp(ə)ni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A game, traditionally played in pubs in Great Britain, in which players attempt to push coins so that they land between marked boundaries.".
Zero misspellings are on record for shove ha'penny in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From shove + ha'penny. The correct English form is shove ha'penny, spelled S-H-O-V-E- -H-A-'-P-E-N-N-Y.
Definition
- 1A game, traditionally played in pubs in Great Britain, in which players attempt to push coins so that they land between marked boundaries.
Etymology
From shove + ha'penny.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.