zakât
\za.kat\
The verdict
“zakât” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Charité, l’un des devoirs de tout musulman, qui consiste à donner de l’argent pour les pauvres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zakat · zakât · French
zakât · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Z" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zakât |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \za.kat\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
zakât is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \za.kat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Charité, l’un des devoirs de tout musulman, qui consiste à donner de l’argent pour les pauvres.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for zakât in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 zakât, spelled Z-A-K-Â-T.
Definition
- 1Charité, l’un des devoirs de tout musulman, qui consiste à donner de l’argent pour les pauvres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zakât appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est considéré comme obligatoire, au même titre que la shahâda (profession de foi qui atteste qu’il n’y a de dieu que Dieu et que Muhammad est son messager), la salât (la prière, à la fréquence de cinq par jours), la zakât (aumône annuelle) et le hajj (pèlerinage aux lieux saint de la ville de la Mecque).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.