sacoche

/\sa.kɔʃ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#22,694

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

sacoche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grosse bourse de cuir ordinairement retenue par une courroie et qui se porte au côté ou dans le dos. Pronounced \sa.kɔʃ\. Often confused with sacoches and Sache.

Key facts for sacoche
PropertyValue
Headwordsacoche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.kɔʃ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#22,694
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sacoche in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sacoche is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.kɔʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,694 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 sacoche, with forms such as "ascoche", "saccoche", and "saccohe". 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, "sacoches", "Sache", 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 sacoche, spelled S-A-C-O-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grosse bourse de cuir ordinairement retenue par une courroie et qui se porte au côté ou dans le dos.
  2. 2
    Sac de toile forte ou de peau, dans lequel les encaisseurs des maisons de banque et de commerce mettaient les espèces qu’ils étaient chargés de donner ou de recevoir en paiement.
  3. 3
    Sac à main.
  4. 4
    Sac à main pour homme dépourvu de courroie mais parfois équipé d’une dragonne.
  5. 5
    Sac accroché sur le porte-bagages, le guidon ou le réservoir d'une bicyclette ou d'une moto.
  6. 6
    Sac qui voyage - ou voyageait avant la dématérialisation totale- entre les bureaux de poste et les centres de chèques postaux. On y mettait, entre autre, les chèques et leurs bordereaux de remise.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ascoche,saccoche,saccohe,sacocche,sacoceh,sacochhe,sacohce,saocche,scaoche,ssacoche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sacoche

Misspelling Variants of "sacoche"

ascoche7saccoche8saccohe7sacocche8sacoceh7sacochhe8sacohce7saocche7
Misspelling Variants of "sacoche"

Frequency rank: #22,694 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sacoche"?
"sacoche" is spelled S-A-C-O-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.kɔʃ\.
What does "sacoche" mean?
As a noun, "sacoche" means: Grosse bourse de cuir ordinairement retenue par une courroie et qui se porte au côté ou dans le dos.
What words are commonly confused with "sacoche"?
"sacoche" is commonly confused with "sacoches", "Sache". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sacoche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sacoche" is \sa.kɔʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sacoche" come from?
"sacoche" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.