cadence phrygienne
The verdict
“cadence phrygienne” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Enchaînement du premier renversement de l’accord de sous-dominante avec l’accord de dominante, IV⁶ → V⁵.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadence phrygienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.sɑ̃s fʁi.ʒjɛn\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadence phrygienne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadence phrygienne is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.sɑ̃s fʁi.ʒjɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Enchaînement du premier renversement de l’accord de sous-dominante avec l’accord de dominante, IV⁶ → V⁵.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cadence phrygienne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 phrygienne, spelled C-A-D-E-N-C-E- -P-H-R-Y-G-I-E-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enchaînement du premier renversement de l’accord de sous-dominante avec l’accord de dominante, IV⁶ → V⁵.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-E-N-C-E- -P-H-R-Y-G-I-E-N-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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