zambien
\zɑ̃.bjɛ̃\
The verdict
“zambien” is uncommon French (frequency #72,023 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,023
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propre ou relatif à la Zambie, état d’Afrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zambien · zambien · French
zambien · rank #72,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,023
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH échapperait
Nearest frequency peer: échapperait (+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 « zambien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yorkaises
yorkaises
27,981 corpus weight
- Yser
Yser
27,980 corpus weight
- zambien
zambien
27,978 corpus weight
- échapperait
échapperait
27,977 corpus weight
- échouait
échouait
27,976 corpus weight
- écorchée
écorchée
27,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zambien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zambien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \zɑ̃.bjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zambien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zambien is uncommon French at frequency #72,023 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \zɑ̃.bjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Propre ou relatif à la Zambie, état d’Afrique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for zambien in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is zambien, spelled Z-A-M-B-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Propre ou relatif à la Zambie, état d’Afrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zambien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le drapeau zambien, symbole de patriotisme et des ressources naturelles du pays, fut hissé pour la première fois à l’Indépendance de l’ancienne Rhodésie du Nord, le 23 octobre 1964.
Président de la fédération zambienne à l’époque, Kalusha Bwalya raconte un « Hervé humble, intelligent, ambitieux, qui a toujours travaillé très dur. Il a vécu comme un Zambien, il passait au maximum une semaine par an en Europe ».
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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