sac à malices

\sa.k‿a ma.lis\

/\sa.k‿a ma.lis\/ noun

The verdict

“sac à malices” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accessoire utilisé par un prestidigitateur pour effectuer des tours de passe-passe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sac-a-malices · sac à malices · French

sac à malices · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for sac à malices
PropertyValue
Headwordsac à malices
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.k‿a ma.lis\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sac à malices” sits in French frequency

sac à malices falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sac à malices is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.k‿a ma.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sac à malices, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sac à malices, spelled S-A-C- -À- -M-A-L-I-C-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Accessoire utilisé par un prestidigitateur pour effectuer des tours de passe-passe.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des ruses, des tours dont dispose une personne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sac à malices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. — Nous n’avons pas vidé notre sac à malices. Ils ne nous ont pas pris le meilleur.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sac à malices"?
"sac à malices" is spelled S-A-C- -À- -M-A-L-I-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.k‿a ma.lis\.
What does "sac à malices" mean?
As a noun, "sac à malices" means: Accessoire utilisé par un prestidigitateur pour effectuer des tours de passe-passe.
How do you pronounce "sac à malices"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sac à malices" is \sa.k‿a ma.lis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sac à malices" come from?
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list