# scone

> English word · Noun · IPA /skɒn/ · frequency rank #40,011

## Definitions
1. A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
2. Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.
3. The head.

## Etymology
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, Scottish Gaelic sgonn (“lump, mouthful”).

## Easily confused with
- **son** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-son)
- **soe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-soe)
- **some** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-some)
- **soon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-soon)
- **song** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-song)
- **sons** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-sons)
- **sole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-sole)
- **shoe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-shoe)
- **Sony** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-sony)
- **sore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-sore)
- **Scot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-scot)
- **sine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-sine)
- **Sion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-sion)
- **sona** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-sona)
- **sone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-sone)
- **store** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-store)
- **score** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-score)
- **stone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-stone)
- **Scott** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-scott)
- **smoke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scone-vs-smoke)

## Common misspellings (7)
`csone`, `sccone`, `scnoe`, `scoen`, `sconne`, `socne`, `sscone`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/scone