zag
\t͡saːk\
The verdict
“zag” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,273) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,273
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de zagen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zag · zag · French
zag · rank #48,273 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,273
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zeitschrift
Nearest frequency peer: Zeitschrift (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “zag”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Yahya
Yahya
51,731 corpus weight
- zag
zag
51,728 corpus weight
- Zeitschrift
Zeitschrift
51,727 corpus weight
- éboueur
éboueur
51,726 corpus weight
- éboulements
éboulements
51,725 corpus weight
- échouée
échouée
51,724 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “zag” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zag |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \t͡saːk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “zag” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for zag is neighbouring look-alikes ("zu", "ze", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \t͡saːk\. Frequency #48,273 among 240 “Z” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de zagen.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zag, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "zu", "ze", "zi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is zag, spelled Z-A-G.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de zagen.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "zag" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "zu". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #48,273 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.