synérèse
\si.ne.ʁɛz\
The verdict
“synérèse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraction, réunion de deux syllabes en une seule dans un même mot, mais sans aucun changement de lettres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-synerese · synérèse · French
synérèse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | synérèse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ne.ʁɛz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
synérèse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.ne.ʁɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for synérèse, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 synérèse, spelled S-Y-N-É-R-È-S-E.
Definition
- 1Contraction, réunion de deux syllabes en une seule dans un même mot, mais sans aucun changement de lettres.
- 2Phénomène de fusion des deux voyelles d’une diphtongue afin de respecter le mètre dans un vers.
- 3Transformation lente et progressive d’un gel qui expulse son solvant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how synérèse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les poètes latins font quelquefois de deux syllabes les mots deerant, Orpheus, etc., par synérèse.
Août qui se dit «out» et Saône qui se prononce «sone», sont deux exemples de synérèse.
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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.