scone
/skɒn/noun, verb
scone is spelled S-C-O-N-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, scone means “A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of scone is scones.
How many letters and syllables are in scone?
| Letters | 5: S-C-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 39,832nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is scone?
Scone appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd 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 scone?
- UK /skɒn/
- UK /skəʊ̯n/
- British /skɔn/
Scone has one syllable (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). Recordings: En-uk-scone.ogg, En-au-scone.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with scone?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as scone from its last stressed vowel (/ɒn/, British pronunciation):
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 scone
- scones plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sconing participle, present
- sconed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
- 2
Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.
- 3
AustraliainformalThe head.
verb
- 1
AustraliaslangTo hit on the head.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Scone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pastry:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | scone |
| German | Teegebäck |
| Spanish | scone, scon, escón |
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 scone come from?
Originally Scots, possibly from Middle Low German schö̂ne (“fine flour bread”), or Middle Dutch schoonbroot (“fine bread; a kind of flat angular loaf”), from schoon (“fine”) + broot (“bread”). Alternatively, might derive from Scottish Gaelic sgonn (“lump, mouthful”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).