encrust

Other forms of encrust

past tense

encrusted·

present participle

encrusting·

third person

encrusts·

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 encrust

What does encrust mean?

encrust means "cover or coat with a crust". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in encrust?

encrust has 2 syllables: en-crust. The stress falls on "crust". In IPA it is /ɛnˈkɹʌst/.

What is another word for encrust?

Close synonyms include incrust, incrust, beset, incrust. 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 encrust a common word?

encrust 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.

What rhymes with encrust?

2 words rhyme with encrust. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.