shilling
French, noun/ʃi.liŋ/
shilling is spelled S-H-I-L-L-I-N-G (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Shilling is a French masculine noun meaning “shilling (old UK coin)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ancienne pièce de monnaie du Royaume-Uni avant la décimalisation de 1971, qui avait une valeur de 12 pennys…”.
What does shilling mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshilling (old UK coin)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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 (/).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of shilling
- shillings plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce shilling?
- /ʃi.liŋ/
- \ʃi.liŋ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to shilling
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is shilling in French?
shilling appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).