asyndète
\a.sɛ̃.dɛt\
The verdict
“asyndète” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suppression des particules de coordination ou des conjonctions, et par extension de toute liaison attendue ou logique, dans l’ordre grammatical ou sémantique, telle : bon pied, bon œil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asyndete · asyndète · French
asyndète · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asyndète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sɛ̃.dɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « asyndète » en français
Rare enough to double-check
asyndète is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sɛ̃.dɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Suppression des particules de coordination ou des conjonctions, et par extension de toute liaison attendue ou logique, dans l’ordre grammatical ou sémantique, telle : bon pied, bon œil.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for asyndète, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is asyndète, spelled A-S-Y-N-D-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Suppression des particules de coordination ou des conjonctions, et par extension de toute liaison attendue ou logique, dans l’ordre grammatical ou sémantique, telle : bon pied, bon œil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how asyndète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les raisons qui ont amené les auteurs à employer l’asyndète doivent être étudiées séparément pour l’oeuvre de chaque auteur.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.