sculpt
/skʌlpt/verb, noun
sculpt is spelled S-C-U-L-P-T: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, sculpt means “To form by sculpture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sculpt?
| Letters | 6: S-C-U-L-P-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 36,998th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is sculpt?
Sculpt appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th 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 sculpt?
- /skʌlpt/
Sculpt 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-us-sculpt.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sculpt
- sculpts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- sculpting participle, present
- sculpted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sculpt mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To form by sculpture.
They sculpted a statue out of clay.
- 2
To work as a sculptor.
What do you do? -I used to box, but now I sculpt.
- 3
To carve out gradually.
Landforms sculpted by the wind.
noun
- 1
A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sculpt in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense be a sculptor:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sculpter |
| German | bildhauerisch gestalten, bildhauerisch tätig sein, formen, meißeln |
| Portuguese | esculpir |
| Spanish | esculpir |
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 sculpt come from?
From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).