shekels

Other forms of shekels

plural

shekelses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shekels

What does shekels mean?

shekels means "informal terms for money".

How many syllables are in shekels?

shekels has 2 syllables: shek-els. The stress falls on "shek". In IPA it is /ˈʃɛkəlz/.

What is another word for shekels?

Close synonyms include boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shekels a common word?

shekels is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.