# screen

> English word · Noun · IPA /skɹiːn/ · frequency rank #1,501

## Definitions
1. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
2. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
3. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
4. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
5. Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
6. Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
7. Various forms or formats of information display
8. Various forms or formats of information display
9. Various forms or formats of information display
10. Various forms or formats of information display
11. Various forms or formats of information display
12. A disguise; concealment.
13. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
14. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
15. An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
16. A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
17. A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
18. A large scarf.

## Etymology
From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

## Easily confused with
- **seen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-seen)
- **screw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-screw)
- **spree** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-spree)
- **siren** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-siren)
- **sheen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-sheen)
- **steen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-steen)
- **street** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-street)
- **spleen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-spleen)
- **strewn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-strewn)
- **Streep** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-streep)
- **screwed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-screwed)
- **screened** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screen-vs-screened)
- **scream** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scream-vs-screen)
- **Scheer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scheer-vs-screen)
- **screech** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/screech-vs-screen)

## Common misspellings (9)
`csreen`, `sccreen`, `sceren`, `screenn`, `scren`, `screne`, `scrreen`, `srceen`, `sscreen`

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