Ziguinchor
\zi.ɡɛ̃.ʃoʁ\
The verdict
“Ziguinchor” is uncommon French (frequency #64,885 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,885
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville principale de la Casamance au Sénégal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ziguinchor · Ziguinchor · French
Ziguinchor · rank #64,885 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,885
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH yézidis
Nearest frequency peer: yézidis (-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 « Ziguinchor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yakuzas
yakuzas
35,119 corpus weight
- yoruba
yoruba
35,118 corpus weight
- yézidis
yézidis
35,117 corpus weight
- Ziguinchor
Ziguinchor
35,116 corpus weight
- âpreté
âpreté
35,115 corpus weight
- échapperont
échapperont
35,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ziguinchor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ziguinchor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \zi.ɡɛ̃.ʃoʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ziguinchor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ziguinchor is uncommon French at frequency #64,885 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \zi.ɡɛ̃.ʃoʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville principale de la Casamance au Sénégal.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ziguinchor in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Ziguinchor, spelled Z-I-G-U-I-N-C-H-O-R.
Definition
- 1Ville principale de la Casamance au Sénégal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ziguinchor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Sénégal, suite à l’attaque brutale dans une forêt de Casamance lors de laquelle 13 civils ont été tués, samedi 6 janvier, une délégation ministérielle conduite par le ministre de l’Intérieur s'est rendue ce dimanche à Ziguinchor, la capitale régionale.
Il a inventé le concert de casseroles et aujourd’hui il est casserolisé par les étudiants devant la mairie à Ziguinchor.
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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