Zambèze
\zɑ̃.bɛz\
The verdict
“Zambèze” is uncommon French (frequency #76,242 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,242
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très long fleuve d’Afrique australe, prenant sa source en Zambie, drainant également l’Angola, la Namibie, le Botswana, le Zimbabwe, le Malawi, le Kenya et le Mozambique, et se jetant dans l’océan ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-zambeze · Zambèze · French
Zambèze · rank #76,242 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,242
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Youssoupha
Nearest frequency peer: Youssoupha (-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 « Zambèze »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yachting
yachting
23,763 corpus weight
- yad
yad
23,762 corpus weight
- Youssoupha
Youssoupha
23,760 corpus weight
- Zambèze
Zambèze
23,759 corpus weight
- Zedong
Zedong
23,758 corpus weight
- zinzins
zinzins
23,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Zambèze » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zambèze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \zɑ̃.bɛz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Zambèze » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Zambèze is uncommon French at frequency #76,242 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \zɑ̃.bɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Très long fleuve d’Afrique australe, prenant sa source en Zambie, drainant également l’Angola, la Namibie, le Botswana, le Zimbabwe, le Malawi, le Kenya et le Mozambique, et se jetant dans l’océan ...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Zambèze in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Zambèze, spelled Z-A-M-B-È-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Très long fleuve d’Afrique australe, prenant sa source en Zambie, drainant également l’Angola, la Namibie, le Botswana, le Zimbabwe, le Malawi, le Kenya et le Mozambique, et se jetant dans l’océan Indien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zambèze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Zambèze est le 4ᵉ fleuve du continent africain par la longueur, après le Nil, le Congo et le Niger.
Sofala, Zofala, Zefala Nom propre d’une ville de la côte orientale des Cafres, en la Basse Éthiopie. Sofala, Zofala. Elle est capitale du Royaume de Sofala, & située sur une petite île près de l’embouchure de la rivière de Zambèze. Cette ville a quelques fortifications, & une citadelle construite par les Portugais, qui en sont les maîtres.
This word in other languages
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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