course en sac

/\kuʁ.s‿ɑ̃ sak\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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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\.

Key facts for course en sac
PropertyValue
Headwordcourse en sac
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kuʁ.s‿ɑ̃ sak\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

course en sac is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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 toile de jute), ce qui rend le déplacement mal aisé et oblige à sautiller.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "course en sac"?
"course en sac" is spelled C-O-U-R-S-E- -E-N- -S-A-C. The IPA pronunciation is \kuʁ.s‿ɑ̃ sak\.
What does "course en sac" mean?
As a noun, "course en sac" 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...
How do you pronounce "course en sac"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "course en sac" is \kuʁ.s‿ɑ̃ sak\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "course en sac" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.