pochette
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pochette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Petite poche, petit sac, petite enveloppe.
- 2Enveloppe de papier, de plastique ou de carton servant d’emballage.
- 3Dispositif composé de deux morceaux de plastique fin soudés entre eux, dont un gommé, destiné à présenter un timbre dans un album sans l'abîmer.
- 4Petit filet de pêche.
- 5Mouchoir destiné à être mis dans une petite poche.
- 6Petit 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
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Misspelling Variants of "pochette"
Frequency rank: #11,831 in French
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