sepulture

Other forms of sepulture

plural

sepultures·

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 sepulture

What does sepulture mean?

sepulture means "the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sepulture?

sepulture has 3 syllables: se-pul-ture. The stress falls on "se".

What is another word for sepulture?

Close synonyms include burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, burial chamber. 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 sepulture a common word?

sepulture 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.