cadence

Other forms of cadence

plural

cadences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cadence

What does cadence mean?

cadence means "(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cadence?

cadence has 2 syllables: ca-dence. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˈkeɪdəns/.

What is another word for cadence?

Close synonyms include meter, metre, measure, beat, cadency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cadence a common word?

cadence is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.