Closest matches in this entry: abatis, about the bush, advanced work, arch dam, argue.
Sentence evidence is available for fence, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
Ranking signals come from moby, wordnet, opengloss, derived_reverse, and related lexical sources.

Synonym selection checklist

Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "fence".
Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.

When not to replace "fence"

Keep "fence" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.

If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.

Replacement workflow

1. Preserve meaning

Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "fence" intact in the sentence you are editing.

2. Tune tone

Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.

3. Re-read context

Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.

Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.

Final fit check

After choosing a replacement for "fence", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.

If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "fence" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

23 entries

bargainer barrier boundaryclose incontend converse dealer discourse enclose enclosure fight have inclose monger participate

Showing 16 of 23 words.

More specific

18 entries

barbed wire fencebuild fencecultural barrierepee fencingfoil fencinghedgehedge with futuresinstall fencelanguage barrieroffset riskpalisadepicket fenceprivacy fenceregulatory barriersabre fencingsecurity fence

Showing 16 of 18 words.

Collocations

10 entries

barbed wire fencechain link fencefence linefence postmetal fencepicket fenceprivacy fencestone fencewire fencewooden fence

Inflections

3 entries

fenced fences fencing

Derivations

4 entries

fenced fencepost fencer fencing

Translations

260 translations across 130 languages.

Aari

1 entries

gurdá noun (barrier)

Albanian

2 entries

gardh noun (barrier)
rrethojë noun (barrier)

Amharic

1 entries

አጥር noun (barrier)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

φραγμός noun (barrier)
ἕρκος noun (barrier)

Arabic

4 entries

جدار noun (barrier)
سياج noun (barrier)
سُور noun (barrier)
سُور noun (barrier)

Aragonese

1 entries

barana noun (barrier)

Armenian

2 entries

չափար noun (barrier)
ցանկապատ noun (barrier)

Assamese

2 entries

জেওৰা noun (barrier)
বেৰা noun (barrier)

Asturian

4 entries

allambráu noun (barrier)
barganaz noun (barrier)
barganera noun (barrier)
cierru noun (barrier)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

barı noun (barrier)
divar noun (barrier)
hasar noun (barrier)
sədd noun (barrier)

Bashkir

1 entries

ҡойма noun (barrier)

Basque

1 entries

hesi noun (barrier)

Belarusian

4 entries

агаро́джа noun (barrier)
парка́н noun (barrier)
плот noun (barrier)
тын noun (barrier)

Bengali

1 entries

বেড়া noun (barrier)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

बाड़ noun (barrier)

Bikol Central

1 entries

kudal noun (barrier)

Bislama

1 entries

banis noun (barrier)

Breton

1 entries

peulgae noun (barrier)

Bulgarian

3 entries

огра́да noun (barrier)
плет noun (barrier)
фехтувам се verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Burmese

3 entries

ခြံစည်းရိုး noun (barrier)
စည်း noun (barrier)
အကာ noun (barrier)

Catalan

4 entries

barrera noun (barrier)
tanca noun (barrier)
valla noun (barrier)
esgrimir verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Cebuano

1 entries

koral noun (barrier)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

پەرژین noun (barrier)

Chechen

1 entries

керт noun (barrier)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

柵欄 /栅栏 noun (barrier)
籬笆 /篱笆 noun (barrier)

Church Slavic

2 entries

плотъ noun (barrier)
халѫга noun (barrier)

Chuukese

1 entries

tit noun (barrier)

Cornish

3 entries

ke noun (barrier)
kloos noun (barrier)
skyrmya verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Czech

4 entries

ohrada noun (barrier)
oplocení noun (barrier)
plot noun (barrier)
šermovat verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Danish

2 entries

hegn noun (barrier)
fægte verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Dari

1 entries

کَتَارَه noun (barrier)

Dutch

2 entries

hek noun (barrier)
omheining noun (barrier)

Esperanto

2 entries

barilo noun (barrier)
skermi verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Estonian

2 entries

tara noun (barrier)
vehklema verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Faroese

1 entries

girðing noun (barrier)

Finnish

2 entries

aita noun (barrier)
miekkailla verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

French

2 entries

cloison noun (barrier)
clôture noun (barrier)

Galician

2 entries

cerrume noun (barrier)
valo noun (barrier)

Georgian

4 entries

გალავანი noun (barrier)
ღობე noun (barrier)
ფარიკაობა verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)
ხმალაობა verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

German

4 entries

Fence noun (barrier)
Fenz noun (barrier)
Haag noun (barrier)
Hag noun (barrier)

Greek

4 entries

μάντρα noun (barrier)
περίφραξη noun (barrier)
φράχτης noun (barrier)
ξιφομαχώ verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Greenlandic

1 entries

ungaloq noun (barrier)

Hamer-Banna

4 entries

agála noun (barrier)
kermí noun (barrier)
qalánsi noun (barrier)
áigi noun (barrier)

Hanunoo

1 entries

alad noun (barrier)

Hausa

1 entries

shinge noun (barrier)

Hebrew

1 entries

גָדֵר noun (barrier)

Higaonon

1 entries

alad noun (barrier)

Hindi

1 entries

बाड़ noun (barrier)

Hungarian

1 entries

kerítés noun (barrier)

Icelandic

1 entries

girðing noun (barrier)

Ido

1 entries

skermar verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Indonesian

1 entries

pagar noun (barrier)

Ingrian

1 entries

aita noun (barrier)

Iranian Persian

3 entries

حِصار noun (barrier)
دیوار noun (barrier)
پَرْچین noun (barrier)

Irish

4 entries

airbhe noun (barrier)
claí noun (barrier)
fál noun (barrier)
sconsa noun (barrier)

Italian

4 entries

barriera noun (barrier)
cinta noun (barrier)
palizzata noun (barrier)
recinto noun (barrier)

Japanese

4 entries

囲い noun (barrier)
垣 noun (barrier)
垣根 noun (barrier)
塀 noun (barrier)

Javanese

1 entries

pager noun (barrier)

Kannada

1 entries

ಬೇಲಿ noun (barrier)

Kazakh

2 entries

дуал noun (barrier)
қаша noun (barrier)

Khmer

2 entries

ចំណារ noun (barrier)
រ noun (barrier)

Korean

2 entries

담 noun (barrier)
울타리 noun (barrier)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

дубал noun (barrier)
кашаа noun (barrier)

Lao

1 entries

ຮົ້ວ noun (barrier)

Latin

1 entries

saepēs noun (barrier)

Latvian

2 entries

sēta noun (barrier)
žogs noun (barrier)

Lithuanian

1 entries

tvora noun (barrier)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

płot noun (barrier)

Macedonian

4 entries

о́града noun (barrier)
плет noun (barrier)
плот noun (barrier)
мечува verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Malay

1 entries

pagar noun (barrier)

Malayalam

1 entries

വേലി noun (barrier)

Mansaka

1 entries

arad noun (barrier)

Manx

1 entries

cleigh noun (barrier)

Maranao

1 entries

alad noun (barrier)

Moksha

1 entries

перяфкс noun (barrier)

Mongolian

4 entries

хайс noun (barrier)
хашаа noun (barrier)
ᠬᠠᠰᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ noun (barrier)
ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠤ noun (barrier)

Māori

4 entries

taiapa noun (barrier)
taiepa noun (barrier)
takitaki noun (barrier)
tautātete verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Norman

2 entries

cliôthuthe noun (barrier)
cllôture d'bouais noun (barrier)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries

tan noun (barrier)
çeper noun (barrier)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

gjerde noun (barrier)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

gjerde noun (barrier)

Occitan

1 entries

clausura noun (barrier)

Old English

1 entries

heġe noun (barrier)

Oromo

2 entries

dallaa noun (barrier)
kellaa noun (barrier)

Ossetian

1 entries

ӕмбонд noun (barrier)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

چیت noun (barrier)

Pashto

1 entries

کټاره noun (barrier)

Pennsylvania German

1 entries

Fenz noun (barrier)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Tun noun (barrier)

Polish

4 entries

ogrodzenie noun (barrier)
płot noun (barrier)
walczyć na szable verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)
walczyć na szpady verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Portuguese

2 entries

cerca noun (barrier)
esgrimir verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Quechua

1 entries

pirqa noun (barrier)

Romanian

3 entries

gard noun (barrier)
îngrăditură noun (barrier)
scrima verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Romansch

1 entries

saiv noun (barrier)

Russian

4 entries

забо́р noun (barrier)
и́згородь noun (barrier)
огра́да noun (barrier)
огражде́ние noun (barrier)

Scottish Gaelic

3 entries

bàrd noun (barrier)
callaid noun (barrier)
feansa noun (barrier)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

plȏt noun (barrier)
ȍgrada noun (barrier)
о̏града noun (barrier)
пло̑т noun (barrier)

Siberian Tatar

1 entries

цитән noun (barrier)

Sidamo

1 entries

huxxa noun (barrier)

Sinhalese

1 entries

වැට noun (barrier)

Slovak

3 entries

ohrada noun (barrier)
oplotenie noun (barrier)
plot noun (barrier)

Slovene

2 entries

ograja noun (barrier)
sabljati se verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Southern Altai

1 entries

чеден noun (barrier)

Spanish

4 entries

alambrada noun (barrier)
alambrado noun (barrier)
barda noun (barrier)
cerca noun (barrier)

Swahili

2 entries

ua noun (barrier)
ua verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Swedish

3 entries

staket noun (barrier)
stängsel noun (barrier)
fäkta verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Tagalog

1 entries

bakod noun (barrier)

Tajik

2 entries

девор noun (barrier)
ҳисор noun (barrier)

Tamil

1 entries

வேலி noun (barrier)

Tarifit

1 entries

afray noun (barrier)

Tatar

1 entries

койма noun (barrier)

Telugu

2 entries

కంచె noun (barrier)
దడి noun (barrier)

Thai

1 entries

รั้ว noun (barrier)

Tigrinya

1 entries

ሓጹር noun (barrier)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

banis noun (barrier)

Turkish

3 entries

duvar noun (barrier)
çeper noun (barrier)
çit noun (barrier)

Turkmen

2 entries

aýmança noun (barrier)
haýat noun (barrier)

Tuvan

1 entries

кажаа noun (barrier)

Tày

1 entries

ái noun (barrier)

Ugaritic

1 entries

𐎂𐎄𐎗𐎚 noun (barrier)

Ukrainian

4 entries

огоро́жа noun (barrier)
парка́н noun (barrier)
пліт noun (barrier)
тин noun (barrier)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

płot noun (barrier)

Urdu

1 entries

باڑ noun (barrier)

Uyghur

1 entries

قاشا noun (barrier)

Uzbek

2 entries

devor noun (barrier)
toʻsiq noun (barrier)

Vietnamese

1 entries

hàng rào noun (barrier)

Vilamovian

1 entries

caojn noun (barrier)

Walloon

2 entries

cloteure noun (barrier)
håye di ronxhes noun (barrier)

Welsh

2 entries

ffens noun (barrier)
cleddyfa verb (to engage in (the sport) fencing)

Yiddish

1 entries

פּלויט noun (barrier)

Sample sentences

24 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

A fence between makes love more keen.

Source: tatoeba (20898)

The school grounds extend as far as this fence.

Source: tatoeba (21555)

A fence runs around the house.

Source: tatoeba (24173)

There is a fence about the house.

Source: tatoeba (24175)

Showing 4 of 24 available sentences.

Common questions

What are the closest synonyms for "fence"?

Closest matches include abatis, about the bush, advanced work, arch dam, argue.

How should I check whether a synonym fits "fence"?

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