pochette

/\pɔ.ʃɛt\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#11,831

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

pochette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite poche, petit sac, petite enveloppe. Pronounced \pɔ.ʃɛt\. Often confused with poulette and pochettes.

Key facts for pochette
PropertyValue
Headwordpochette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔ.ʃɛt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#11,831
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pochette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.ʃɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,831 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for pochette, with forms such as "opchette", "pcohette", and "pocchette". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "poulette", "pochettes", 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 pochette, spelled P-O-C-H-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite poche, petit sac, petite enveloppe.
  2. 2
    Enveloppe de papier, de plastique ou de carton servant d’emballage.
  3. 3
    Dispositif composé de deux morceaux de plastique fin soudés entre eux, dont un gommé, destiné à présenter un timbre dans un album sans l'abîmer.
  4. 4
    Petit filet de pêche.
  5. 5
    Mouchoir destiné à être mis dans une petite poche.
  6. 6
    Petit violon, autrement appelé poche, de 20 à 30 cm de long utilisé par les professeurs de danse au XVIIIᵉ siècle.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opchette,pcohette,pocchette,pocehtte,pochete,pochetet,pochhette,pochtete,pohcette,ppochette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pochette

Misspelling Variants of "pochette"

opchette8pcohette8pocchette9pocehtte8pochete7pochetet8pochhette9pochtete8
Misspelling Variants of "pochette"

Frequency rank: #11,831 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pochette"?
"pochette" is spelled P-O-C-H-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔ.ʃɛt\.
What does "pochette" mean?
As a noun, "pochette" means: Petite poche, petit sac, petite enveloppe.
What words are commonly confused with "pochette"?
"pochette" is commonly confused with "poulette", "pochettes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pochette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pochette" is \pɔ.ʃɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pochette" come from?
"pochette" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.