sconce

Other forms of sconce

plural

sconces·

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 sconce

What does sconce mean?

sconce means "a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sconce?

sconce has 1 syllable: sconce. In IPA it is /ˈskɑns/.

Is sconce a common word?

sconce 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 sconce?

1 word rhymes with sconce. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.