zin
The verdict
“zin” is uncommon French (frequency #71,196 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,196
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Loyal, fidèle, lié par un serment sur l’honneur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zin · zin · French
zin · rank #71,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,196
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zombi
Nearest frequency peer: zombi (+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 « zin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yn
yn
28,810 corpus weight
- zin
zin
28,805 corpus weight
- zombi
zombi
28,804 corpus weight
- échangeable
échangeable
28,802 corpus weight
- échue
échue
28,801 corpus weight
- éclairement
éclairement
28,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zin is uncommon French at frequency #71,196 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Loyal, fidèle, lié par un serment sur l’honneur.".
zin has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 zin, spelled Z-I-N.
Definition
- 1Loyal, fidèle, lié par un serment sur l’honneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
zerbitzari zina, un fidèle serviteur.
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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