riflescope
noun
riflescope is a noun meaning “A telescopic sight for a rifle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-F-L-E-S-C-O-P-E, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of riflescope is riflescopes.
What does riflescope mean?
noun
- 1
A telescopic sight for a rifle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of riflescope
- riflescopes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is riflescope?
Riflescope appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).
Where does riflescope come from?
From rifle + scope.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).