chelín
Spanish, noun/t͡ʃeˈlin/
chelín is spelled C-H-E-L-Í-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 78,932nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chelín is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “shilling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Unidad monetaria de Austria, sustituída por el euro desde el 2002”.
What does chelín mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshilling
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unidad monetaria de Austria, sustituída por el euro desde el 2002. 2. Unidad monetaria de Kenia. 3. Unidad monetaria de Somalia. 4. Unidad monetaria de Tanzania.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chelín
- chelines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chelín?
- /t͡ʃeˈlin/
- [t͡ʃeˈlĩn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chelín
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chelín in Spanish?
chelín appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).