zal
\ˈzɑːl\
The verdict
“zal” is uncommon French (frequency #83,520 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,520
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de tal par spirantisation (t → z).
Corpus desk
Index FR-zal · zal · French
zal · rank #83,520 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,520
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH yole
Nearest frequency peer: yole (-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 « zal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Yakov
Yakov
16,484 corpus weight
- yole
yole
16,482 corpus weight
- zal
zal
16,481 corpus weight
- Zinn
Zinn
16,480 corpus weight
- zippo
zippo
16,479 corpus weight
- zombis
zombis
16,478 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈzɑːl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zal is uncommon French at frequency #83,520 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈzɑːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de tal par spirantisation (t → z).".
zal has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is zal, spelled Z-A-L.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de tal par spirantisation (t → z).
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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