zombis
\zɔ̃.bi\
The verdict
“zombis” is uncommon French (frequency #83,523 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,523
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de zombi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zombis · zombis · French
zombis · rank #83,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,523
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zippo
Nearest frequency peer: zippo (-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 « zombis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- écharde
écharde
16,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zombis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zombis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zɔ̃.bi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zombis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zombis is uncommon French at frequency #83,523 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \zɔ̃.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de zombi.".
No misspelling variants are generated for zombis in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is zombis, spelled Z-O-M-B-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de zombi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zombis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bref, des deux côtés des Pyrénées, la fin du monde à l'écran était toujours l'occasion de se creuser les méninges, de discourir sur des questions philosophico-existentielles et d'expérimenter en se la jouant Auteur, tout en montrant du nichon, de la violence et des zombis.
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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