chiffre
/ʃˈifɹə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At the end of the eighteenth century, French opera composers like A. E. Grétry (Richard Coeur de Lion, 1784), L. Cherubini (Medeé, 1797), and J. Fr. Le Cueur (Ossian ou les Bardes, 1804) began to “assign musical chiffres to precise dramatic situations or single figures on the stage, which were played again when these figures appeared again,” according to Bern University professor Anselm Gerhard."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: chiffre