zink
\t͡sɪŋk\
The verdict
“zink” is uncommon French (frequency #77,167 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,167
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de zinken.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zink · zink · French
zink · rank #77,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,167
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH yuzu
Nearest frequency peer: yuzu (-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 « zink »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yuna
yuna
22,836 corpus weight
- yuzu
yuzu
22,835 corpus weight
- zink
zink
22,834 corpus weight
- zoophile
zoophile
22,833 corpus weight
- Zora
Zora
22,832 corpus weight
- écrivaines
écrivaines
22,830 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zink » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zink |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \t͡sɪŋk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zink » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zink is uncommon French at frequency #77,167 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \t͡sɪŋk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de zinken.".
Zero misspellings are on record for zink in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is zink, spelled Z-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de zinken.
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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