cadence
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,986
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
cadence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Suite régulière de sons, de gestes, de mouvements, d’événements, etc., rythme. Pronounced \ka.dɑ̃s\. Often confused with carène and carence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadence is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.dɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,986 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cadence, with forms such as "acdence", "caddence", and "cadecne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "carène", "carence", "Cayenne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cadence, spelled C-A-D-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Suite régulière de sons, de gestes, de mouvements, d’événements, etc., rythme.
- 2Chute, terminaison d’une période, d’une phrase ou d’un membre de phrase.
- 3Mesure qui règle le mouvement de celui qui danse.
- 4Mesure qui règle le mouvement de celui qui danse.
- 5Divers mouvements qu’opère la basse ou partie grave de l’harmonie lorsqu’elle vient se reposer ou tomber à la fin d’une phrase.
- 6Divers mouvements qu’opère la basse ou partie grave de l’harmonie lorsqu’elle vient se reposer ou tomber à la fin d’une phrase.
- 7Divers mouvements qu’opère la basse ou partie grave de l’harmonie lorsqu’elle vient se reposer ou tomber à la fin d’une phrase.
- 8Agrément qui résulte d’un vers ou d’une période dont les repos sont habilement ménagés.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acdence,caddence,cadecne,cadencce,cadenec,cadennce,cadnece,caednce,ccadence,cdaence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cadence
Misspelling Variants of "cadence"
Frequency rank: #13,986 in French
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