Zaza
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The verdict
“Zaza” is uncommon German (frequency #86,081 among 37,643 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,081
- frequency rank, German
- 37,643
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bevölkerungsgruppe in Ostanatolien
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zaza |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Zaza” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Zaza is uncommon German at frequency #86,081 among 37,643 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bevölkerungsgruppe in Ostanatolien".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Zaza, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Zaza, spelled Z-A-Z-A.
Definition
- 1Bevölkerungsgruppe in Ostanatolien
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Zaza”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Z-A-Z-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.