escutcheon

Other forms of escutcheon

plural

escutcheons·

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 escutcheon

What does escutcheon mean?

escutcheon means "a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in escutcheon?

escutcheon has 4 syllables: e-scut-che-on. The stress falls on "scut".

What is another word for escutcheon?

Close synonyms include finger plate, scutcheon, scutcheon. 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 escutcheon a common word?

escutcheon 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.