sac
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,345
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sac is aFrenchnoun. It means: Contenant muni d’une ouverture éventuellement refermable et fait d’un matériau souple (plastique, cuir, étoffe…) qui sert à mettre toutes sortes de choses. Pronounced \sak\. It ranks #1,345 in French word frequency. Often confused with se and si.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sak\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sac is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sak\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,345 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sac in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "si", "st", 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 sac, spelled S-A-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contenant muni d’une ouverture éventuellement refermable et fait d’un matériau souple (plastique, cuir, étoffe…) qui sert à mettre toutes sortes de choses.
- 2Contenant pour toutes sortes de marchandises.
- 3Contenu de ce contenant.
- 4un sac de lait, sac de plastique contenant trois sachets scellés de lait (poches) pour un contenu total de quatre litres.
- 5Un sac à main ou à dos.
- 6Pillage et massacre des habitants d’une ville.
- 7Somme de mille anciens francs français (soit dix nouveaux francs français).
- 8Type abstrait de données non ordonnées.
- 9Habit de pénitence, d’affliction, d’humiliation, robe dont se couvraient les pénitents dans leurs cérémonies, dans leurs processions.
- 10Règle de jeu qui interdit la déviation de la balle jouée par les demis (milieux) adverses avec ses propres demis.
- 11Personne grosse, voire obèse.
- 12Un sac du quart au football canadien (ou américain) est l’action d’un joueur défensif qui rabat le quart-arrière au sol lorsque ce dernier est en possession du ballon.
- 13Réservoir d'air des instruments du type de la musette ou de la cornemuse.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #1,345 in French
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