incense

Other forms of incense

plural

incenses·

past tense

incensed·

present participle

incensing·

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 incense

What does incense mean?

incense means "a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in incense?

incense has 2 syllables: in-cense. The stress falls on "cense". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈsɛns/.

What is another word for incense?

Close synonyms include cense, thurify, infuriate, exasperate. 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 incense a common word?

incense is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 incense?

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