zippo
\zi.po\
The verdict
“zippo” is uncommon French (frequency #83,522 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,522
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Briquet de la marque Zippo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zippo · zippo · French
zippo · rank #83,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,522
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zinn
Nearest frequency peer: Zinn (-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 « zippo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yole
yole
16,482 corpus weight
- zal
zal
16,481 corpus weight
- Zinn
Zinn
16,480 corpus weight
- zippo
zippo
16,479 corpus weight
- zombis
zombis
16,478 corpus weight
- Zverev
Zverev
16,476 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zippo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zippo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zi.po\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zippo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zippo is uncommon French at frequency #83,522 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \zi.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Briquet de la marque Zippo.".
zippo has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 zippo, spelled Z-I-P-P-O.
Definition
- 1Briquet de la marque Zippo.
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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