zan
\ˈzãːn\
The verdict
“zan” is uncommon French (frequency #67,982 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,982
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de tan par spirantisation (t → z).
Corpus desk
Index FR-zan · zan · French
zan · rank #67,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,982
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH youtubeuse
Nearest frequency peer: youtubeuse (-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 « zan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Yassin
Yassin
32,023 corpus weight
- youtubeuse
youtubeuse
32,020 corpus weight
- zan
zan
32,019 corpus weight
- zem
zem
32,018 corpus weight
- Zermatt
Zermatt
32,017 corpus weight
- échelonne
échelonne
32,016 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈzãːn\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zan is uncommon French at frequency #67,982 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈzãːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de tan par spirantisation (t → z).".
Zero misspellings are on record for zan in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is zan, spelled Z-A-N.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de tan 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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