scène
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#639
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
scène is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie du théâtre où les acteurs jouent devant le public. Pronounced \sɛn\. It ranks #639 in French word frequency. Often confused with See and sen.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for scène is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for scène, with forms such as "csène", "sccène", and "scene". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "See", "sen", "sens", 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 scène, spelled S-C-È-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: csène,sccène,scene,scnèe,scèen,scènne,sscène,sècne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for scène
Misspelling Variants of "scène"
Frequency rank: #639 in French
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Nearby French words
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