crenelle

Other forms of crenelle

plural

crenelles·

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 crenelle

What does crenelle mean?

crenelle 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 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crenelle?

crenelle has 3 syllables: cre-ne-lle. The stress falls on "cre".

What is another word for crenelle?

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

crenelle 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.