scie à cadre
\si a kadʁ\
The verdict
“scie à cadre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne conception de scie qui utilisait une lame relativement étroite, maintenue rigide par une tension à travers le cadre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scie-a-cadre · scie à cadre · French
scie à cadre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scie à cadre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si a kadʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
scie à cadre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \si a kadʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne conception de scie qui utilisait une lame relativement étroite, maintenue rigide par une tension à travers le cadre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for scie à cadre in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is scie à cadre, spelled S-C-I-E- -À- -C-A-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ancienne conception de scie qui utilisait une lame relativement étroite, maintenue rigide par une tension à travers le cadre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scie à cadre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lendemain, la scie électrique, l’une des fiertés de la découpe, tomba en panne. En attendant sa réparation, on ressortit une vieille scie à cadre, et nous dûmes couper les blocs à la main.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.