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6-letter words (1 found)

CANCAN,

5-letter words (1 found)

CANNA,

4-letter words (7 found)

ACCA,ANAN,ANNA,CACA,CANN,NAAN,NANA,

3-letter words (5 found)

ANA,ANN,CAA,CAN,NAN,

2-letter words (3 found)

AA,AN,NA,

You can make 17 words from cancan according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cancan

cancan

Alternative forms

  • can-can

Etymology

Borrowed from French cancan.

Noun

cancan (plural cancans)

  1. A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
  2. (motocross) A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.

Translations

Verb

cancan (third-person singular simple present cancans, present participle cancanning, simple past and past participle cancanned)

  1. To dance the cancan.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cancan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑnˈkɑn/, /kɑ̃ˈkɑ̃/
  • Hyphenation: can‧can
  • Rhymes: -ɑn

Noun

cancan m (plural cancans)

  1. cancan (French dance)

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from French cancan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑŋkɑn/, [ˈkɑ̝ŋkɑ̝n]
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑnˌkɑn/, [ˈkɑ̝ŋˌkɑ̝n]
  • IPA(key): /ˈkænˌkæn/, [ˈk̟æŋˌk̟æn]

Noun

cancan

  1. cancan

Declension

Further reading

  • “cancan”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

Supposedly, this word originates with a dispute at the Collège de France circa 1550, over whether to use a traditional French pronunciation of Latin or a reconstructed pronunciation of Latin. One of the points of most dispute was the pronunciation of qu, with the word quamquam exemplifying this: it was pronounced in reconstructed Latin as [ˈkʷam.kʷã(m)] but pronounced in French Latin as /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/ ("cancan"). After this debacle, a "cancan" came to be "any kind of scandalous performance".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/

Noun

cancan m (plural cancans)

  1. gossip
  2. cancan (dance)

Synonyms

  • commérage
  • qu’en-dira-t-on
  • ragot

Derived terms

  • cancaner
  • cancaneuse

References

Further reading

  • “cancan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cancan.

Noun

cancan n (plural cancanuri)

  1. gossip

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French cancan.

Noun

cancan c

  1. cancan

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org