zigzaguer
\ziɡ.za.ɡe\
The verdict
“zigzaguer” is uncommon French (frequency #99,780 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,780
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ne pas aller droit ; avancer en faisant des zigzags.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zigzaguer · zigzaguer · French
zigzaguer · rank #99,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,780
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zeitgeist
Nearest frequency peer: Zeitgeist (-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 « zigzaguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yugo
yugo
225 corpus weight
- Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist
222 corpus weight
- zigzaguer
zigzaguer
221 corpus weight
- zoome
zoome
220 corpus weight
- ébranlement
ébranlement
218 corpus weight
- échafaude
échafaude
217 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zigzaguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zigzaguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ziɡ.za.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zigzaguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zigzaguer is uncommon French at frequency #99,780 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ziɡ.za.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ne pas aller droit ; avancer en faisant des zigzags.".
zigzaguer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is zigzaguer, spelled Z-I-G-Z-A-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ne pas aller droit ; avancer en faisant des zigzags.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zigzaguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Tumarche haussa les épaules et il s’éloigna, zigzaguant.
Comme fait un mur dont la construction ou fondation sont ausi vicieuses, qui cependant, peut avoir quelques assises assez fortes, pour faire dévier et zigzaguer la fracture verticale.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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