zo
\ˈzoː\
The verdict
“zo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,209) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,209
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Présent de l’indicatif du verbe bezañ «être» utilisé lorsque le sujet est exprimé et placé avant le verbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zo · zo · French
zo · rank #36,209 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,209
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zenith
Nearest frequency peer: zenith (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « zo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- within
within
63,795 corpus weight
- zapping
zapping
63,794 corpus weight
- zenith
zenith
63,793 corpus weight
- zo
zo
63,792 corpus weight
- ébriété
ébriété
63,791 corpus weight
- éclaircie
éclaircie
63,790 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « zo » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈzoː\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #36,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « zo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for zo is neighbouring look-alikes ("zu", "zoo", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈzoː\. Frequency #36,209 among 240 “Z” headwords. Gloss: "Présent de l’indicatif du verbe bezañ «être» utilisé lorsque le sujet est exprimé et placé avant le verbe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "zu", "zoo", "zoé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is zo, spelled Z-O.
Definition
- 1Présent de l’indicatif du verbe bezañ «être» utilisé lorsque le sujet est exprimé et placé avant le verbe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Na vern petra a cʼhoarvezo : Pez a zo dleet a vezo.
O ! Job, cʼhwi a zo ur paotr mat, gwellocʼh eget na grede din…
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.