course en sac
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
course en sac is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jeu sportif prenant la forme d’une course en ligne dans laquelle chaque participant a les deux jambes – voire le corps entier avec seule la tête visible – placées dans un même sac (typiquement en t... Pronounced \kuʁ.s‿ɑ̃ sak\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | course en sac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kuʁ.s‿ɑ̃ sak\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for course en sac is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kuʁ.s‿ɑ̃ sak\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Jeu sportif prenant la forme d’une course en ligne dans laquelle chaque participant a les deux jambes – voire le corps entier avec seule la tête visible – placées dans un même sac (typiquement en t...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for course en sac in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 course en sac, spelled C-O-U-R-S-E- -E-N- -S-A-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu sportif prenant la forme d’une course en ligne dans laquelle chaque participant a les deux jambes – voire le corps entier avec seule la tête visible – placées dans un même sac (typiquement en toile de jute), ce qui rend le déplacement mal aisé et oblige à sautiller.
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