Zermatt
\zɛʁ.mat\
The verdict
“Zermatt” is uncommon French (frequency #67,984 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,984
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune du canton du Valais en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zermatt · Zermatt · French
Zermatt · rank #67,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,984
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zem
Nearest frequency peer: zem (-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 « Zermatt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- youtubeuse
youtubeuse
32,020 corpus weight
- zan
zan
32,019 corpus weight
- zem
zem
32,018 corpus weight
- Zermatt
Zermatt
32,017 corpus weight
- échelonne
échelonne
32,016 corpus weight
- écumer
écumer
32,015 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Zermatt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zermatt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \zɛʁ.mat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Zermatt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Zermatt is uncommon French at frequency #67,984 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \zɛʁ.mat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune du canton du Valais en Suisse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Zermatt in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Zermatt, spelled Z-E-R-M-A-T-T.
Definition
- 1Commune du canton du Valais en Suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zermatt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’hôtel du Mont Rose est donc rose, grande bâtisse trapue au cœur de Zermatt, dont les chambres nobles ont un balcon qui s’ouvre théâtralement sur la haute pyramide tourmentée du Cervin, roide jet de pierre qui semble vouloir éventrer le ciel, mais dévie de sa ligne et se tord en son dernier tiers, comme si, à l’instar du seppuku japonais dans sa phase ul…
Dans le fond de la vallée : Zermatt, affublé de sa montagne absolue à qui les Suisses avaient su répondre par une proposition de village impeccable. Chalets sombres, zones piétonnes, pavements, mobilier au cordeau, villageois à quatre épingles. Que les Français se moquent de l’ordre suisse était la preuve de son existence.
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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