scaffold

Other forms of scaffold

plural

scaffolds·

past tense

scaffolded·

present participle

scaffolding·

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 scaffold

What does scaffold mean?

scaffold means "a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scaffold?

scaffold has 2 syllables: scaf-fold. The stress falls on "scaf". In IPA it is /ˈskæfəld/.

Is scaffold a common word?

scaffold 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.