scheol

Other forms of scheol

plural

scheols·

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 scheol

What does scheol mean?

scheol means "(religion) the world of the dead".

How many syllables are in scheol?

scheol has 2 syllables: sche-ol. The stress falls on "sche".

What is another word for scheol?

Close synonyms include Hell, Hades, infernal region, netherworld, underworld. 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 scheol a common word?

scheol 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.