zeppelin
\zɛ.plɛ̃\
The verdict
“zeppelin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,338. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,338
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aérostat de type dirigeable rigide fabriqué par Zeppelin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zeppelin · zeppelin · French
zeppelin · rank #35,338 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,338
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH écartent
Nearest frequency peer: écartent (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « zeppelin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- yakuza
yakuza
64,666 corpus weight
- Yates
Yates
64,665 corpus weight
- zeppelin
zeppelin
64,663 corpus weight
- écartent
écartent
64,662 corpus weight
- éclaircisse…
éclaircissements
64,661 corpus weight
- écope
écope
64,660 corpus weight
What this shows « zeppelin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zeppelin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zɛ.plɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « zeppelin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around zeppelin (IPA \zɛ.plɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,338 among 240 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for zeppelin, with forms such as "ezppelin", "zepelin", and "zepeplin". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is zeppelin, spelled Z-E-P-P-E-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Aérostat de type dirigeable rigide fabriqué par Zeppelin.
- 2N'importe quel ballon dirigeable rigide ou souple (blimp).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zeppelin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les zeppelins ont lancé sans discontinuer des bombes destructives sur Londres et sur toute l’Angleterre; chaque jour les U-boote criminels, envoyaient sans merci tous les navires au fond de la mer.
Le bruit de la ligne Dauphine-Nation, pareil à une plainte de zeppelin, accompagne le voyageur jusqu’à ces quartiers cernés de cheminées d’usines, lacs de zinc où la rue d’Aubervilliers se jette comme une rivière de vernis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ezppelin
- zepelin
- zepeplin
- zeppeiln
- zeppelinn
- zeppellin
- zeppelni
- zepplein
- zpepelin
- zzeppelin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zeppelin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).