schelling
The verdict
“schelling” is uncommon French (frequency #62,623 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,623
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de shilling.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schelling · schelling · French
schelling · rank #62,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,623
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH savouré
Nearest frequency peer: savouré (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « schelling »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sars
sars
37,381 corpus weight
- savourant
savourant
37,380 corpus weight
- savouré
savouré
37,379 corpus weight
- schelling
schelling
37,378 corpus weight
- scholl
scholl
37,377 corpus weight
- scroll
scroll
37,375 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « schelling » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schelling |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « schelling » en français
Rare enough to double-check
schelling is uncommon French at frequency #62,623 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de shilling.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for schelling, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is schelling, spelled S-C-H-E-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Variante de shilling.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how schelling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par l'avidité des français, ces objets, qui, dans les circonstances ordinaires, ne valent pas plus d'un shelling, montèrent dès le premier instant aux prix de trois à quatre piastres, c'est à dire que la valeur fut sur-le-champ portée à vingt fois au dessus de son cours habituel. (Voyage de Dumont d'Urville autour du Monde, raconté par lui-même)
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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