Zarathoustra
\za.ʁa.tus.tʁa\
The verdict
“Zarathoustra” is uncommon French (frequency #67,217 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,217
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre appellation de Zoroastre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zarathoustra · Zarathoustra · French
Zarathoustra · rank #67,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,217
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zhejiang
Nearest frequency peer: Zhejiang (+2 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 « Zarathoustra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wins
wins
32,790 corpus weight
- yoni
yoni
32,788 corpus weight
- Zarathoustra
Zarathoustra
32,784 corpus weight
- Zhejiang
Zhejiang
32,782 corpus weight
- ZUP
ZUP
32,781 corpus weight
- échangisme
échangisme
32,779 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Zarathoustra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zarathoustra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \za.ʁa.tus.tʁa\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #67,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Zarathoustra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Zarathoustra is uncommon French at frequency #67,217 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \za.ʁa.tus.tʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Autre appellation de Zoroastre.".
Zarathoustra has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Zarathoustra, spelled Z-A-R-A-T-H-O-U-S-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1Autre appellation de Zoroastre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zarathoustra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il parlait de Zarathoustra comme s’il avait été son disciple, d’Iskander (Alexandre le Grand), comme s’il l’avait suivi de conquête en conquête, de Balkh, la mère des villes, comme s’il en avait été citoyen, et des carnages de Gengis Khan, comme s’il avait été trempé dans le sang des peuples massacrés et enseveli sous les cendres et les ruines des fortere…
Si Zarathoustra, plutôt que de danser sur le fil, avait fait du patin avec les octogénaires en acier fuselé de Sils-Maria, il n’aurait pas sombré dans la magnifique douleur de son triste savoir.
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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