Zebra
\ˈt͡seːbʁa\
The verdict
“Zebra” is uncommon French (frequency #50,594 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,594
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zèbre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zebra · Zebra · French
Zebra · rank #50,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,594
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zahra
Nearest frequency peer: Zahra (-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 « Zebra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- worry
worry
49,412 corpus weight
- Zahra
Zahra
49,408 corpus weight
- Zebra
Zebra
49,407 corpus weight
- ziad
ziad
49,406 corpus weight
- échangiste
échangiste
49,404 corpus weight
- éclos
éclos
49,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Zebra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zebra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈt͡seːbʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Zebra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Zebra is uncommon French at frequency #50,594 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈt͡seːbʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zèbre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Zebra, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Zebra, spelled Z-E-B-R-A.
Definition
- 1Zèbre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zebra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Madagaskar ist eine wunderschöne Insel", so der US-Präsident. "Das weiß ich aus diesem einen Film mit dem Löwen und dem Zebra und der Giraffe und den Pinguinen. Die Palästinenser werden sich da sehr wohlfühlen."
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).