scander
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#53,627
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
scander is aFrenchverb. It means: Décomposer un vers en ses éléments, en ses pieds formés de longues et de brèves, comme sont les vers latins et les vers grecs, pour juger s’il est selon les règles. Pronounced \skɑ̃.de\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scander |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \skɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for scander is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \skɑ̃.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,627 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for scander 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 scander, spelled S-C-A-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Décomposer un vers en ses éléments, en ses pieds formés de longues et de brèves, comme sont les vers latins et les vers grecs, pour juger s’il est selon les règles.
- 2Articuler un vers en marquant fortement chacun des pieds qui le composent.
- 3Articuler un vers en faisant sentir le nombre des syllabes qui le composent, en parlant de certaines langues modernes.
- 4Parler ou déclamer en détachant les syllabes.
- 5Jouer en marquant fortement les temps des mesures et le rythme.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #53,627 in French
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