zaïre
\za.iʁ\
The verdict
“zaïre” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,601. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,601
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité monétaire introduite en 1967 en République démocratique du Congo (remplaçant le franc congolais) jusqu’en 1993 (remplacée à son tour par le nouveau zaïre). Le zaïre se divisait en 100 makuta ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-zaire · zaïre · French
zaïre · rank #29,601 · 6 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,601
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Ypres
Nearest frequency peer: Ypres (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « zaïre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Youri
Youri
70,402 corpus weight
- Ypres
Ypres
70,401 corpus weight
- zaïre
zaïre
70,400 corpus weight
- zodiac
zodiac
70,399 corpus weight
- zoologique
zoologique
70,398 corpus weight
- âpre
âpre
70,397 corpus weight
What this shows « zaïre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | zaïre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \za.iʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « zaïre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around zaïre (IPA \za.iʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,601 among 240 “Z” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Unité monétaire introduite en 1967 en République démocratique du Congo (remplaçant le franc congolais) jusqu’en 1993 (remplacée à son tour par le nouveau zaïre). Le zaïre se divisait en 100 makuta ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for zaïre, with forms such as "azïre", "zarïe", and "zaïer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "zara", "zappé", "zèbre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is zaïre, spelled Z-A-Ï-R-E.
Definition
- 1Unité monétaire introduite en 1967 en République démocratique du Congo (remplaçant le franc congolais) jusqu’en 1993 (remplacée à son tour par le nouveau zaïre). Le zaïre se divisait en 100 makuta et 10,000 sengi. Le symbole était Z ou Ƶ, le code ISO 4217 ZRZ.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- azïre
- zarïe
- zaïer
- zaïrre
- zzaïre
- zïare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zaïre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "zaïre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).