zob
\zɔb\
The verdict
“zob” is uncommon French (frequency #50,023 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,023
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pénis, sexe masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zob · zob · French
zob · rank #50,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,023
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zapata
Nearest frequency peer: Zapata (-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 « zob »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yogourt
yogourt
49,981 corpus weight
- Yolanda
Yolanda
49,980 corpus weight
- Zapata
Zapata
49,979 corpus weight
- zob
zob
49,978 corpus weight
- écossaises
écossaises
49,976 corpus weight
- éliminations
éliminations
49,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zob » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zob |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zɔb\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zob » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zob is uncommon French at frequency #50,023 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \zɔb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pénis, sexe masculin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zob, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 zob, spelled Z-O-B.
Definition
- 1Pénis, sexe masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Monsieur l’curé dit au vicaire Sortons observer l’couchant Sortons ob– papa Sortons ob– maman Sortons observer l’couchant.
Elles aiment le gros zob noir à Didon.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).