poche

/\pɔʃ\/ noun

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Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,689

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

poche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Contenant souple servant au transport d’objets ou de liquides. Pronounced \pɔʃ\. It ranks #2,689 in French word frequency. Often confused with poe and pose.

Key facts for poche
PropertyValue
Headwordpoche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔʃ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,689
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of poche in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for poche is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,689 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 29 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for poche, with forms such as "opche", "pcohe", and "pocche". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "poe", "pose", "pote", 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 poche, spelled P-O-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Contenant souple servant au transport d’objets ou de liquides.
  2. 2
    ou Grand sac contenant une substance poudreuse ou granulaire telle que du grain, de la farine ou du ciment.
  3. 3
    , Sac (souvent plastique comme ceux des supermarchés).
  4. 4
    Espace confectionné pour contenir des objets ou des liquides.
  5. 5
    Morceau de tissu cousu à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur d’un vêtement → voir poche à rabat, poche-revolver et poche intérieure.
  6. 6
    Sorte de filet dont on se sert pour prendre des lapins au furet.
  7. 7
    Fond de chalut.
  8. 8
    Sorte de filet pour prendre le poisson.
  9. 9
    Récipient destiné à transporter le métal en fusion.
  10. 10
    Récipient flexible conique, permettant de dessiner des motifs à partir d’une pâte → voir poche à douille.
  11. 11
    Trou vers lequel les boules sont envoyées sur une table.
  12. 12
    Compartiment d’un contenant plus grand. → voir filtre à poche
  13. 13
    Espace naturel contenant quelque chose. → voir poche ventrale, poche mammaire et poche de manifestants
  14. 14
    Jabot des oiseaux.
  15. 15
    Strate intercalaire → voir poche sédimentaire.
  16. 16
    Cavité de l’organisme, d’origine naturelle ou pathologique → voir poche des eaux, poche mammaire et poche branchiale.
  17. 17
    Scrotum.
  18. 18
    Repli abdominal chez les marsupiaux. → voir poche abdominale
  19. 19
    Sinus qui se fait à un abcès, dans une plaie. → voir poche parodontale
  20. 20
    Ilot de résistance dans un encerclement. → voir poche de résistance
  21. 21
    Déformation d’une surface lisse.
  22. 22
    Faux pli que fait un vêtement mal taillé.
  23. 23
    Dilatation du tissu d’une muqueuse. → voir poche urétrale, poche anévrysmale et poche rénale
  24. 24
    Accumulation de matière. → voir poche d’eau, poche d’air et poche de gaz
  25. 25
    Petit violon que les maîtres à danser portaient sur eux. → voir pochette
  26. 26
    De format réduit pour être mis dans une poche. → voir de poche
  27. 27
    . Appropriation de quelque chose. → voir en poche et dans la poche
  28. 28
    ou Localisation de l’origine d’un geste. → voir payer de sa poche et mettre la main à la poche
  29. 29
    Sachet scellé de lait d'une contenance standard de 1.3333L et habituellement vendu en paquet de trois dans un sac plastique de 4L.

Synonyms

chepo

This word in other languages

pocket(English)bolsillo(Español)Tasche(Deutsch)bolso(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opche,pcohe,pocche,poceh,pochhe,pohce,ppoche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poche

Misspelling Variants of "poche"

opche5pcohe5pocche6poceh5pochhe6pohce5ppoche6
Misspelling Variants of "poche"

Frequency rank: #2,689 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poche"?
"poche" is spelled P-O-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔʃ\.
What does "poche" mean?
As a noun, "poche" means: Contenant souple servant au transport d’objets ou de liquides.
What words are commonly confused with "poche"?
"poche" is commonly confused with "poe", "pose", "pote". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "poche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poche" is \pɔʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poche" 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.