Zambezi
/zæmˈbeɪzi/
"zambezi" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Zambezi” is uncommon English (frequency #56,550 among 2,810 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,550
- frequency rank, English
- 2,810
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A river in Southern Africa, flowing south and west from Zambia through east Angola and Zambia and then east along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the I...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zambezi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /zæmˈbeɪzi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Zambezi” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Zambezi is uncommon English at frequency #56,550 among 2,810 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /zæmˈbeɪzi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A river in Southern Africa, flowing south and west from Zambia through east Angola and Zambia and then east along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the I...".
Zambezi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Zambezi, spelled Z-A-M-B-E-Z-I.
Definition
- 1A river in Southern Africa, flowing south and west from Zambia through east Angola and Zambia and then east along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Zambezi”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Z-A-M-B-E-Z-I - 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.