Zébédée
\ze.be.de\
The verdict
“Zébédée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Père des apôtres Jacques et Jean.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zebedee · Zébédée · French
Zébédée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Z" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zébédée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ze.be.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Zébédée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Zébédée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ze.be.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Père des apôtres Jacques et Jean.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Zébédée, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Zébédée, spelled Z-É-B-É-D-É-E.
Definition
- 1Père des apôtres Jacques et Jean.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zébédée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’étant avancé un peu plus loin, il vit dans une barque Jacques, fils de Zébédée, et Jean, son frère, qui raccommodaient leurs filets.
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