Zeman
The verdict
“Zeman” is uncommon French (frequency #87,270 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,270
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille tchèque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zeman · Zeman · French
Zeman · rank #87,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,270
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zeev
Nearest frequency peer: Zeev (-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 « Zeman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yona
yona
12,736 corpus weight
- Zacharias
Zacharias
12,735 corpus weight
- Zeev
Zeev
12,732 corpus weight
- Zeman
Zeman
12,731 corpus weight
- zélée
zélée
12,729 corpus weight
- écervelé
écervelé
12,727 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Zeman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zeman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Zeman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Zeman is uncommon French at frequency #87,270 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille tchèque.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Zeman, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is Zeman, spelled Z-E-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille tchèque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zeman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Miloš Zeman.
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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