Zedong
\ze.dɔ̃ŋ\
The verdict
“Zedong” is uncommon French (frequency #76,243 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,243
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom d’origine chinoise, surtout connu pour Mao Zedong.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zedong · Zedong · French
Zedong · rank #76,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,243
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zambèze
Nearest frequency peer: Zambèze (-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 « Zedong »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yad
yad
23,762 corpus weight
- Youssoupha
Youssoupha
23,760 corpus weight
- Zambèze
Zambèze
23,759 corpus weight
- Zedong
Zedong
23,758 corpus weight
- zinzins
zinzins
23,756 corpus weight
- zircon
zircon
23,755 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Zedong » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zedong |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ze.dɔ̃ŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Zedong » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Zedong is uncommon French at frequency #76,243 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ze.dɔ̃ŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom d’origine chinoise, surtout connu pour Mao Zedong.".
Zedong has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 Zedong, spelled Z-E-D-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1Prénom d’origine chinoise, surtout connu pour Mao Zedong.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zedong appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Afin de poursuivre son Grand Bond en avant, Mao Zedong organise, en 1962 à Pékin, une grande réunion des 7000 cadres du Parti communiste. Dans un discours, le président de la Chine, Liu Shaoqi, dénonce les politiques de Mao. « Mao est écarté […] de toutes les décisions économiques », rappelle Loïc Tassé. « Mao, à partir de ce moment-là, va concevoir le pr…
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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