zāy
French, noun\zaj\
zāy is spelled Z-Ā-Y (3 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zāy is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative form of zaïn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de zaïn”.
What does zāy mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of zaïn
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de zaïn.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de zaïn.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of zāy
- zāys plural
- zāī
- zaïn
- zay
- zāy
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zāy?
- \zaj\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is zāy in French?
zāy appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).