sepulchre
/ˈsɛpəlkɚ/noun, verb
sepulchre is spelled S-E-P-U-L-C-H-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is sepulchure: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 54 of all searches for the word. Sepulchre is a noun meaning “A burial chamber”. The plural of sepulchre is sepulchres.
How many letters and syllables are in sepulchre?
| Letters | 9: S-E-P-U-L-C-H-R-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 42,680th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, sepulchure, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell sepulchre?
Sepulchre is spelled S-E-P-U-L-C-H-R-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for sepulchre in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is sepulchre?
Sepulchre appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,680th 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 sepulchre?
- UK /ˈsɛpəlkə/
- US /ˈsɛpəlkɚ/
- /ˈsiːpəlkəɹ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sepulchre.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sepulchre?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sepulchre from its last stressed vowel (/ɛpəlkəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sepulcher.
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 sepulchre
- sepulchres plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sepulcher
- sepulchring participle, present
- sepulchred participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sepulchre mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A burial chamber.
Near-synonym: crypt
- 2
A recess in some early churches in which the reserved sacrament, etc. was kept from Good Friday till Easter.
verb
- 1
To place in a sepulchre.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sepulchre in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense burial chamber:
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 sepulchre come from?
From Middle English sepulchre, sepulcre, sepulker, from late Old English sepulcer, Old French sepulchre, sepulcre, and their etymon Latin sepulchrum, sepulcrum (“grave, burial place”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).