shilling
\ʃi.liŋ\
The verdict
“shilling” is an uncommon French word, ranked #66,342 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #66,342
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancienne pièce de monnaie du Royaume-Uni avant la décimalisation de 1971, qui avait une valeur de 12 pennys ou un vingtième de livre sterling. Son symbole était la barre oblique (/).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shilling |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.liŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shilling” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for shilling is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃi.liŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #66,342 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ancienne pièce de monnaie du Royaume-Uni avant la décimalisation de 1971, qui avait une valeur de 12 pennys ou un vingtième de livre sterling. Son symbole était la barre oblique (/).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shilling in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is shilling, spelled S-H-I-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Ancienne pièce de monnaie du Royaume-Uni avant la décimalisation de 1971, qui avait une valeur de 12 pennys ou un vingtième de livre sterling. Son symbole était la barre oblique (/).
This word in other languages
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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Using “shilling”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-H-I-L-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃi.liŋ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.