zazou

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for zazou is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \za.zu\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,360 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Appellation donnée à des jeunes gens qui ont créé un courant de mode en France dans les années 1930. Ils étaient reconnaissables à leurs vêtements anglais ou américains, et affichaient leur amour d...".

No misspelling variants are generated for zazou in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is zazou, spelled Z-A-Z-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.