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Descant

Descant is a 7 letter word, used as a noun or as a verb, a compound word, with Anglo-Norman origins, and has the letters acdenst (acdenst). Starts with d, ends with t, five consonants, two vowels and two syllables.

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7 Letters
5 Consonants
2 Vowels
2 Syllables
Types Of Speech
You can use descant as a noun or as a verb in a sentence.
About Descant
A 2 syllables noun and 7 letters with the letters a, c, d, e, n, s, and t, 5 consonants, 2 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter c. Descant starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, de, des, desc, desca, and the ending characters are t, nt, ant, cant, scant, ..
Definition
A decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Origin/Roots
Anglo Norman
Compound Words
A compound word, descant has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are des, and cant.
Scrabble
Is descant a scrabble word? A 10 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
Pig Latin
Descant in Pig Latin is said as "escantday or escantdway".
Unigram
d | e | s | c | a | n | t
Bigram
de | es | sc | ca | an | nt
Trigram
des | esc | sca | can | ant
Quadrigram
desc | esca | scan | cant
Word Gram
Noun Examples
a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Verb Examples
talk at great length about something of one's interest
sing by changing register;
sing by yodeling;
"The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"
sing in descant

Synonyms (Cognitive Synonyms) For "Descant"

There are 321 synonyms available. These are cognitive relationship words which is to say they have a similar meaning, mean the same thing, or have close definition and relationship to descant.

SynonymDefinition
Absolute Music
Accompanimentthe act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
Accountthe quality of taking advantage
"she turned her writing skills to good account"
Acquirecome to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
"He grew a beard"
"The patient developed abdominal pains"
Adaptation(physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
Airtravel via aircraft
"air travel involves too much waiting in airports"
"if you''ve time to spare go by air"
Air Travel
Air Varie
Aleatorydependent on chance
"the aleatory element in life"
Aleatory Music

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Anagrams

There are 1 anagrams from descant.
Anagram Definition
Descanta decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody

View English words with the unique letters used in descant. Words With The Letters Acdenst

Derives

Descant derives from 3 words.
Word Definition
Descanta decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Warblea lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly
Yodela songlike cry in which the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal voice and falsetto

Hypernyms

Descant has 4 hypernyms.
Word Definition
Accompanimentthe act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
Backupthe act of providing approval and support
"his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives"
Musical Accompaniment
Supportdocumentary validation
"his documentation of the results was excellent"
"the strongest support for this this view is the work of Jones"

The word games Words With Friends, 4pics1Word, Word Chums, and Jumble which is by far one of the most successful of the word games. Jumble was created in 1954 - below, you will find the most unscrambled letters for each descramble word game that others have solved or decoded to make the word descant.

Is descant a scrabble word or can you use descant in Words With Friends? The probability of getting this word in scrabble is 1 out of every 128662 games and in Words With Friends it's 1 out of every 103753 games. This 7 letter 10 point scrabble word can be rearranged 5,040 ways. What other words can be made with the letters a, c, d, e, n, s, and t? There's 4 with 9 letters or less with the letters a, c, d, e, n, s, and t. Here is a list of 4 to try to get you more points.

WordScrabbleWords With FriendsWord Chums4Pics1WordJumble
Descant (7 letters) 10 12 descant
Ascendant (9 letters) 12 +2 15 +3 ascendant
Ascendent (9 letters) 12 +2 15 +3 ascendent
Scandent (8 letters) 11 +1 14 +2 scandent

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