zigzags
\ziɡ.zaɡ\
The verdict
“zigzags” is uncommon French (frequency #80,794 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,794
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de zigzag.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zigzags · zigzags · French
zigzags · rank #80,794 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,794
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zouzou
Nearest frequency peer: Zouzou (+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 « zigzags »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zigzags
zigzags
19,207 corpus weight
- Zouzou
Zouzou
19,206 corpus weight
- zwischen
zwischen
19,205 corpus weight
- ébranlent
ébranlent
19,204 corpus weight
- échangerais
échangerais
19,203 corpus weight
- élaguer
élaguer
19,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zigzags » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zigzags |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ziɡ.zaɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zigzags » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zigzags is uncommon French at frequency #80,794 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ziɡ.zaɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de zigzag.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for zigzags, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is zigzags, spelled Z-I-G-Z-A-G-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de zigzag.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zigzags appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un des petits torpilleurs qui s’étaient empannés près de la côte, démarra brutalement, piqua vers le large en faisant des zigzags, laissant derrière lui un profond sillage.
Sur les pavés blancs, sur les petits rochers, elle marchait en zigzags, heurtant les pots de fleurs par maladresse, ou disparaissant — le long du mur au midi — derrière les beaux cactus à fleurs rouges.
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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