Zambie
\zɑ̃.bi\
The verdict
“Zambie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,816
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays d’Afrique, entouré de l’Angola, la République démocratique du Congo, la Tanzanie, le Malawi, le Mozambique, le Zimbabwe et la Namibie, et dont la capitale est Lusaka.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zambie · Zambie · French
Zambie · rank #21,816 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,816
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Werner
Nearest frequency peer: Werner (-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 « Zambie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- voiler
voiler
78,189 corpus weight
- volts
volts
78,188 corpus weight
- Werner
Werner
78,186 corpus weight
- Zambie
Zambie
78,185 corpus weight
- ânes
ânes
78,184 corpus weight
- écrasée
écrasée
78,182 corpus weight
What this shows « Zambie » 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 | Zambie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \zɑ̃.bi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Zambie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Zambie (IPA \zɑ̃.bi\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,816 among 240 “Z” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays d’Afrique, entouré de l’Angola, la République démocratique du Congo, la Tanzanie, le Malawi, le Mozambique, le Zimbabwe et la Namibie, et dont la capitale est Lusaka.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Zambie, with forms such as "azmbie", "zabmie", and "zambbie". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Zazie", "zombie", "zombies", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Zambie, spelled Z-A-M-B-I-E.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Afrique, entouré de l’Angola, la République démocratique du Congo, la Tanzanie, le Malawi, le Mozambique, le Zimbabwe et la Namibie, et dont la capitale est Lusaka.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zambie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Afrique du Sud, avec la fin de l’apartheid a vu ainsi affluer des migrants venus du Mozambique, de Zambie ou d’Angola quand les Afrikaners partaient vers l’Australie ou l’Amérique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- azmbie
- zabmie
- zambbie
- zambei
- zamibe
- zammbie
- zmabie
- zzambie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Zambie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Zambie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).