ze
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,448
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ze is anFrencharticle. It means: Variante orthographique de the. Permet de signaler que l’objet dont on parle est unique, que c’est le meilleur, l’idéal. À l’oral, on en fait le mot principal de la phrase en lui donnant une intona... Pronounced \zø\. Often confused with zu and zi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \zø\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #24,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ze is 2 letters long, classified as anarticle, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zø\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,448 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ze in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "zu", "zi", "zo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ze, spelled Z-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de the. Permet de signaler que l’objet dont on parle est unique, que c’est le meilleur, l’idéal. À l’oral, on en fait le mot principal de la phrase en lui donnant une intonation très forte.
- 2Permet de mettre en emphase la personne dont on parle. Parfois complété de big.
Frequency rank: #24,448 in French
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