tote-bag
\tɔt.baɡ\
The verdict
“tote-bag” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Long sac rectangulaire à bretelles de part et d’autre de la poche, qui se porte à l’épaule.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tote-bag |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔt.baɡ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tote-bag” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tote-bag is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔt.baɡ\. 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: "Long sac rectangulaire à bretelles de part et d’autre de la poche, qui se porte à l’épaule.".
tote-bag has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tote-bag, spelled T-O-T-E---B-A-G.
Definition
- 1Long sac rectangulaire à bretelles de part et d’autre de la poche, qui se porte à l’épaule.
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.
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Using “tote-bag”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-T-E---B-A-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɔt.baɡ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.