sconces
"sconces" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sconces” is uncommon English (frequency #87,794 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,794
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of sconce
Corpus desk
Index EN-sconces · sconces · English
sconces · rank #87,794 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,794
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Savitri
Nearest frequency peer: Savitri (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “sconces”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Saroyan
Saroyan
12,212 corpus weight
- sashay
sashay
12,211 corpus weight
- satiation
satiation
12,209 corpus weight
- Savitri
Savitri
12,208 corpus weight
- sconces
sconces
12,207 corpus weight
- scopolamine
scopolamine
12,206 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sconces” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sconces |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sconces” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sconces is uncommon English at frequency #87,794 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of sconce".
Zero misspellings are on record for sconces in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is sconces, spelled S-C-O-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of sconce
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sconces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Owing possibly to some flaw in his mental make-up, Uncle Tom has been collecting old silver since I was so high [...]. I knew all about that collection of his, not only because I had had to listen to him for hours on the subject of sconces, foliation, ribbon wreaths in high relief and gadroon borders, but because I had what you might call a personal inter…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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