zijn
\zɛɪn\
The verdict
“zijn” is uncommon French (frequency #73,661 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,661
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Son, sa, ses, en parlant d’un homme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zijn · zijn · French
zijn · rank #73,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,661
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zarco
Nearest frequency peer: Zarco (-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 « zijn »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zarb
zarb
26,342 corpus weight
- Zarco
Zarco
26,341 corpus weight
- zijn
zijn
26,340 corpus weight
- Zimbabwéen
Zimbabwéen
26,339 corpus weight
- éblouissant…
éblouissantes
26,337 corpus weight
- électoralem…
électoralement
26,335 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zijn » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zijn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \zɛɪn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zijn » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zijn is uncommon French at frequency #73,661 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \zɛɪn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Son, sa, ses, en parlant d’un homme.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for zijn, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is zijn, spelled Z-I-J-N.
Definition
- 1Son, sa, ses, en parlant d’un homme.
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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