zeb
\zɛb\
The verdict
“zeb” is uncommon French (frequency #72,844 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,844
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de zob.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zeb · zeb · French
zeb · rank #72,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,844
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Yeats
Nearest frequency peer: Yeats (-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 « zeb »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Yamashita
Yamashita
27,159 corpus weight
- Yeats
Yeats
27,158 corpus weight
- zeb
zeb
27,157 corpus weight
- échappatoir…
échappatoires
27,156 corpus weight
- écheveau
écheveau
27,155 corpus weight
- échouèrent
échouèrent
27,154 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zeb » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zeb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zɛb\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #72,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zeb » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zeb is uncommon French at frequency #72,844 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \zɛb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de zob.".
No misspelling variants are generated for zeb in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is zeb, spelled Z-E-B.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de zob.
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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