sepulcher

Other forms of sepulcher

plural

sepulchers·

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 sepulcher

What does sepulcher mean?

sepulcher means "a chamber that is used as a grave".

How many syllables are in sepulcher?

sepulcher has 3 syllables: se-pul-cher. The stress falls on "se".

What is another word for sepulcher?

Close synonyms include burial chamber, sepulchre, sepulture. 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 sepulcher a common word?

sepulcher 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.