Zacharias
The verdict
“Zacharias” is uncommon French (frequency #87,266 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,266
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zacharie, prophète hébreu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zacharias · Zacharias · French
Zacharias · rank #87,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,266
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH yona
Nearest frequency peer: yona (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Zacharias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Winterthur
Winterthur
12,741 corpus weight
- yona
yona
12,736 corpus weight
- Zacharias
Zacharias
12,735 corpus weight
- Zeev
Zeev
12,732 corpus weight
- Zeman
Zeman
12,731 corpus weight
- zélée
zélée
12,729 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Zacharias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zacharias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Zacharias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Zacharias is uncommon French at frequency #87,266 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zacharias doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Zacharias, spelled Z-A-C-H-A-R-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Zacharie, prophète hébreu.
- 2Zacharie, père de saint Jean-Baptiste.
- 3Zacharie, pape de Rome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zacharias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
in mense octavo in anno secundo Darii factum est verbum Domini ad Zacchariam filium Barachiae filium Addo prophetam dicens.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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