shilling

Other forms of shilling

plural

shillings·

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 shilling

What does shilling mean?

shilling means "the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shilling?

shilling has 2 syllables: shil-ling. The stress falls on "shil". In IPA it is /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/.

What is another word for shilling?

Close synonyms include Ugandan shilling, Tanzanian shilling, Somalian shilling, Kenyan shilling, British shilling. 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 shilling a common word?

shilling is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with shilling?

1 word rhymes with shilling. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.