Scone vs. Sconce — What's the Difference?

A scone ( or ) is a baked good, usually made of either wheat or oatmeal with baking powder as a leavening agent, and baked on sheet pans. A scone is often slightly sweetened and occasionally glazed with egg wash.

A small defensive earthwork or fort.

A small, rich, biscuitlike pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.

A decorative wall bracket for holding candles or lights.

(Utah) Yeast bread dough, deep-fried and served with honey and butter or with a savory filling.

A flattened candlestick that has a handle.

A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.

(Slang) The human head or skull.

Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.

A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.

The head.

A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.

To hit on the head.

A head or a skull.

A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.

A poll tax; a mulct or fine.

Small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle

(Oxon slang) An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.

A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.

(obsolete) A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.

(architecture) A squinch.

A fragment of a floe of ice.

A fixed seat or shelf.

(obsolete) To impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.

(Oxon slang) During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to I have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.

(obsolete) to shut within a sconce; to imprison.

A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.

A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.

A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.

Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.

A poll tax; a mulct or fine.

A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.

Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.

A squinch.

A fragment of a floe of ice.

A fixed seat or shelf.

To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.

To mulct; to fine.

A candlestick with a flat side to be hung on the wall

A forbidding stronghold