crepuscle

Other forms of crepuscle

plural

crepuscles·

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 crepuscle

What does crepuscle mean?

crepuscle means "the time of day immediately following sunset".

How many syllables are in crepuscle?

crepuscle has 3 syllables: cre-pus-cle. The stress falls on "cre".

What is another word for crepuscle?

Close synonyms include twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall. 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 crepuscle a common word?

crepuscle 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.