ensconced
adjective, verb
ensconced is spelled E-N-S-C-O-N-C-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is ensconsed: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Ensconced is an adjective meaning “Placed in a secure environment”.
How many letters and syllables are in ensconced?
| Letters | 9: E-N-S-C-O-N-C-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 56,108th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ensconsed, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell ensconced?
Ensconced is spelled E-N-S-C-O-N-C-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for ensconced in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is ensconced?
Ensconced appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,108th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce ensconced?
Ensconced has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ensconced mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Placed in a secure environment.
- 2
Settled comfortably.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of ensconce
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).