wainscot

Other forms of wainscot

plural

wainscots·

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 wainscot

What does wainscot mean?

wainscot means "panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wainscot?

wainscot has 2 syllables: wain-scot. The stress falls on "wain". In IPA it is /ˈweɪnskət/.

What is another word for wainscot?

Close synonyms include dado, wainscoting, wainscotting. 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 wainscot a common word?

wainscot 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.