ZDF
\ˌt͡sɛt deː ˈʔɛf\
The verdict
“ZDF” is uncommon French (frequency #89,321 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,321
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, chaîne de télévision publique en Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zdf · ZDF · French
ZDF · rank #89,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,321
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH yy
Nearest frequency peer: yy (-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 « ZDF »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yeh
yeh
10,682 corpus weight
- yy
yy
10,681 corpus weight
- ZDF
ZDF
10,680 corpus weight
- zygomatiques
zygomatiques
10,678 corpus weight
- écartons
écartons
10,676 corpus weight
- édenté
édenté
10,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ZDF » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ZDF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌt͡sɛt deː ˈʔɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #89,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ZDF » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ZDF is uncommon French at frequency #89,321 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌt͡sɛt deː ˈʔɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, chaîne de télévision publique en Allemagne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ZDF in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ZDF, spelled Z-D-F.
Definition
- 1Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, chaîne de télévision publique en Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ZDF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Christoph Daum tat vieles in seinem Leben, was Aufsehen erregte, so schrieb er auch Fernsehgeschichte. Im Mai 1989 lieferte sich der damalige Trainer des 1. FC Köln im aktuellen sportstudio des ZDF ein Streitgespräch mit Uli Hoeneß, an das sich nicht nur Fußballfans erinnern.
Antonyms
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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