besace
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,025
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
besace is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sac ouvert par le milieu et fermé par les deux bouts. Ce terme s’applique plus spécialement aux mendiants. Pronounced \bə.zas\. Often confused with besse and beach.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | besace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bə.zas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for besace is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bə.zas\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,025 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for besace, with forms such as "bbesace", "beasce", and "besacce". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "besse", "beach", "berce", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is besace, spelled B-E-S-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sac ouvert par le milieu et fermé par les deux bouts. Ce terme s’applique plus spécialement aux mendiants.
- 2Pièce de toiture en zinc servant à dévier l’écoulement des eaux de pluie, pour éviter la pénétration de l’eau à une jonction, comme une souche de cheminée, un joint de dilatation ou un châssis à tabatière, ou bien pour la guider vers l’évacuation (gouttière, chéneau).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbesace,beasce,besacce,besaec,bescae,bessace,bseace,ebsace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "besace"
Frequency rank: #46,025 in French
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