Stirlingshire
"stirlingshire" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Stirlingshire” is uncommon English (frequency #77,236 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,236
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A historical county and registration county of Scotland, based in Stirling. The historic county was absorbed into Central Region in 1975.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stirlingshire |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #77,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Stirlingshire” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Stirlingshire is uncommon English at frequency #77,236 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A historical county and registration county of Scotland, based in Stirling. The historic county was absorbed into Central Region in 1975.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Stirlingshire in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Stirling + -shire. The correct English form is Stirlingshire, spelled S-T-I-R-L-I-N-G-S-H-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1A historical county and registration county of Scotland, based in Stirling. The historic county was absorbed into Central Region in 1975.
Etymology
From Stirling + -shire.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Stirlingshire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-I-R-L-I-N-G-S-H-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.