sac à merde
\sa.k‿a mɛʁd\
The verdict
“sac à merde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bon à rien ; gros nul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sac-a-merde · sac à merde · French
sac à merde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sac à merde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.k‿a mɛʁd\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sac à merde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sac à merde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.k‿a mɛʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sac à merde, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 merde, spelled S-A-C- -À- -M-E-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Bon à rien ; gros nul.
- 2Sorte de poche que porte une personne qui a subi une stomie, pour collecter ses excréments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sac à merde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je lisais un truc de ce que Mickey Rourke a déclaré à propos des oscars d’Hollywood : celui qui s’occupe de ça est un sac à merde.
Daniel décocha un rapide coup d’œil de biais au sac à merde assis au volant de la Monte Carlo en passant à pied devant la maison ; ce connard était en train de piquer du nez.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.