sac vocal

/\sak vɔ.kal\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

sac vocal is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chez certains animaux, sac gulaire destiné à amplifier les sons par la formation d’une caisse de résonance. Pronounced \sak vɔ.kal\.

Key facts for sac vocal
PropertyValue
Headwordsac vocal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sak vɔ.kal\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sac vocal is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sac vocal is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sak vɔ.kal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Chez certains animaux, sac gulaire destiné à amplifier les sons par la formation d’une caisse de résonance.".

No misspelling variants are generated for sac vocal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 vocal, spelled S-A-C- -V-O-C-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Chez certains animaux, sac gulaire destiné à amplifier les sons par la formation d’une caisse de résonance.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sac vocal"?
"sac vocal" is spelled S-A-C- -V-O-C-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \sak vɔ.kal\.
What does "sac vocal" mean?
As a noun, "sac vocal" means: Chez certains animaux, sac gulaire destiné à amplifier les sons par la formation d’une caisse de résonance.
How do you pronounce "sac vocal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sac vocal" is \sak vɔ.kal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sac vocal" 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.