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scene

/siːn/noun, verb, interjection

scene is spelled S-C-E-N-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 93 times per million words in written English, the 1,144th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “scene vs seen” about 110 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, scene means “The location of an event that attracts attention” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of scene is scenes.

How many letters and syllables are in scene?

Letters5: S-C-E-N-E
Syllables1
In writing93 times per million words; the 1,144th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is scene?

Scene appears 93 times per million words in written English, the 1,144th 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 scene?

  • /siːn/

Scene has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-scene.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with scene

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

scene vs seen110 G

Sounds like: seen (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with scene?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as scene.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: sence, cense.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of scene

  • scenes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • scening participle, present
  • scened participle, past
  • scene!

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does scene mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The location of an event that attracts attention.

    the scene of the crime

  2. 2

    archaicThe stage.

    They stood in the centre of the scene.

  3. 3

    The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.

    to paint scenes

  4. 4

    A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.

    The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes.

  5. 5

    The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.

  6. 6

    A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.

    He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe.

  7. 7

    A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.

  8. 8

    An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.

    The headmistress told the students not to cause a scene.

verb

  1. 1

    To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

  2. 2

    To roleplay.

  3. 3

    Short for demoscene.

interjection

  1. 1

    A notice to actors that their performance has ended.

    Near-synonym: cut!

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate scene?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of scene: sc..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Scene in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchscène (the location of an event that attracts attention), scène de ménage (exhibition of passionate or strong feeling…)
GermanSzene (the location of an event that attracts attention), Milieu (informal, vague group of people with a uniting…)
Portuguesecena (the location of an event that attracts attention), escândalo (exhibition of passionate or strong feeling…)
Spanishescena (the location of an event that attracts attention), ámbito (informal, vague group of people with a uniting…), escenario (location, time, circumstance, etc., in which…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does scene come from?

From Late Middle English scene, from Middle French scene, borrowed from Latin sc(a)ena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena and skene.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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