zizanie des marais

\zi.za.ni de ma.ʁɛ\

/\zi.za.ni de ma.ʁɛ\/ noun

The verdict

“zizanie des marais” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
18
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom vulgaire de Zizania palustris plante annuelle, aquatique, du genre Zizania de la famille des Poacées présente en Amérique du Nord dans l'ouest et au nord des Grands Lacs et dont les grains come...

Key facts for zizanie des marais
PropertyValue
Headwordzizanie des marais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\zi.za.ni de ma.ʁɛ\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “zizanie des marais” sits in French frequency

zizanie des marais falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for zizanie des marais is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zi.za.ni de ma.ʁɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom vulgaire de Zizania palustris plante annuelle, aquatique, du genre Zizania de la famille des Poacées présente en Amérique du Nord dans l'ouest et au nord des Grands Lacs et dont les grains come...".

No misspelling variants are generated for zizanie des marais in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is zizanie des marais, spelled Z-I-Z-A-N-I-E- -D-E-S- -M-A-R-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom vulgaire de Zizania palustris plante annuelle, aquatique, du genre Zizania de la famille des Poacées présente en Amérique du Nord dans l'ouest et au nord des Grands Lacs et dont les grains comestibles sont récoltés traditionnellement par les nations autochtones comme les Cheyennes, les Algonquins, les Dakotas, les Ojibwés.

Synonyms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zizanie des marais"?
"zizanie des marais" is spelled Z-I-Z-A-N-I-E- -D-E-S- -M-A-R-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \zi.za.ni de ma.ʁɛ\.
What does "zizanie des marais" mean?
As a noun, "zizanie des marais" means: Nom vulgaire de Zizania palustris plante annuelle, aquatique, du genre Zizania de la famille des Poacées présente en Amérique du Nord dans l'ouest et au nord des Grands Lacs et dont les grains come...
How do you pronounce "zizanie des marais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "zizanie des marais" is \zi.za.ni de ma.ʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “zizanie des marais”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Z-I-Z-A-N-I-E- -D-E-S- -M-A-R-A-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \zi.za.ni de ma.ʁɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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