shrift

1. 1.

   the act of being shriven

   Broaderconfession

Other forms of shrift

plural

shrifts·

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 shrift

What does shrift mean?

shrift means "the act of being shriven".

How many syllables are in shrift?

shrift has 1 syllable: shrift. In IPA it is /ˈʃɹɪft/.

Is shrift a common word?

shrift 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.