Zambèze
\zɑ̃.bɛz\
The verdict
“Zambèze” is uncommon French (frequency #76,242 among 39,292 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,242
- frequency rank, French
- 39,292
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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 ...
| 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) |
Where “Zambèze” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Zambèze is uncommon French at frequency #76,242 among 39,292 “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.
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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Using “Zambèze”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Z-A-M-B-È-Z-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.