scène
\sɛn\
The verdict
“scène” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #639 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #639
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie du théâtre où les acteurs jouent devant le public.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scène” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for scène is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #639 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for scène, with forms such as "csène", "sccène", and "scene". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "See", "sen", "sens", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is scène, spelled S-C-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Partie du théâtre où les acteurs jouent devant le public.
- 2Lieu de l’action qu’on représente sur le théâtre.
- 3Art dramatique.
- 4Sous-partie d’un acte.
- 5Spectacle, aspect de la nature, d’un ensemble d’objets qui s’offre à la vue.
- 6Toute action qui offre quelque chose de vif, d’animé, d’intéressant, d’extraordinaire, qui fait impression.
- 7Querelle ; dispute ; colère.
- 8Démonstration affectée ; emphatique.
- 9Lieu où se déroule une action.
- 10Unité de découpage normalisée de l’information fournie par un système imageur spatioporté, aux fins d’identification, de traitement et de commercialisation.
- 11Surface observée correspondant à un lot de données auquel on applique le même prétraitement.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: csène,sccène,scene,scnèe,scèen,scènne,sscène,sècne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scène - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “scène”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-C-È-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “See” - see the side-by-side comparison. scène vs See
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.