crenel

1. 1.

   supply with battlements

   Synonymscrenelatecrenellate

   Broadersupply

   architecture

Other forms of crenel

plural

crenels·

past tense

crenelled·

present participle

crenelling·

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 crenel

What does crenel mean?

crenel means "one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crenel?

crenel has 2 syllables and divides as cre-nel under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for crenel?

Close synonyms include scallop, crenation, crenature, crenelle, crenelle. 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 crenel a common word?

crenel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.