zibeline
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#85,395
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
zibeline is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de martre de l’Europe boréale à poils courts et très fins, très recherchée pour sa fourrure. Pronounced \zi.blin\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zibeline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zi.blin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for zibeline is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zi.blin\. Corpus data places it at rank #85,395 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zibeline in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is zibeline, spelled Z-I-B-E-L-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de martre de l’Europe boréale à poils courts et très fins, très recherchée pour sa fourrure.
- 2Peau de cet animal employée comme fourrure.
- 3Sorte de tissu moelleux, doux au toucher et qui imite la fourrure de la martre ou de la belette.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #85,395 in French
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