zon
\zɔ̃\
The verdict
“zon” is uncommon French (frequency #76,247 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,247
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée indiquant un bruit soudain, un coup subit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zon · zon · French
zon · rank #76,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,247
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zircon
Nearest frequency peer: zircon (-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 « zon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zinzins
zinzins
23,756 corpus weight
- zircon
zircon
23,755 corpus weight
- zon
zon
23,754 corpus weight
- écarteur
écarteur
23,753 corpus weight
- échafauder
échafauder
23,752 corpus weight
- échelonnée
échelonnée
23,751 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zon is uncommon French at frequency #76,247 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \zɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Onomatopée indiquant un bruit soudain, un coup subit.".
zon has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 zon, spelled Z-O-N.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée indiquant un bruit soudain, un coup subit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une bonne vieille fille de cinquante ans. Elle demeure au-dessous de nous. D’abord elle était contente : comme elle n’a pas d’horloge, ça lui donnait l’heure. « Vlin ! Vlan ! zon ! zon ! – voilà le petit Chose qu’on fouette ; il est temps de faire mon café au lait. »
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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