zona
\zo.na\
The verdict
“zona” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,819
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éruption vésiculeuse en grappe qui se développe habituellement sur le trajet d’un réseau nerveux et qui affecte une seule moitié du corps, due à une réactivation du virus varicelle-zona (ou VZV) de...
Corpus desk
Index FR-zona · zona · French
zona · rank #44,819 · 5 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,819
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zhu
Nearest frequency peer: Zhu (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « zona »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- youtuber
youtuber
55,185 corpus weight
- Zanetti
Zanetti
55,184 corpus weight
- Zhu
Zhu
55,183 corpus weight
- zona
zona
55,182 corpus weight
- zélés
zélés
55,181 corpus weight
- échafaudages
échafaudages
55,180 corpus weight
What this shows « zona » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | zona |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zo.na\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « zona »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around zona (IPA \zo.na\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,819 among 240 “Z” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Éruption vésiculeuse en grappe qui se développe habituellement sur le trajet d’un réseau nerveux et qui affecte une seule moitié du corps, due à une réactivation du virus varicelle-zona (ou VZV) de...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for zona, with forms such as "ozna", "znoa", and "zoan". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "zoo", "zou", "zone", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is zona, spelled Z-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Éruption vésiculeuse en grappe qui se développe habituellement sur le trajet d’un réseau nerveux et qui affecte une seule moitié du corps, due à une réactivation du virus varicelle-zona (ou VZV) de la famille des Herpesviridae, et qui survient souvent plusieurs dizaines d’années après avoir contracté la varicelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait guéri son propre père d’un zona qui menaçait de faire complètement le tour de son ventre, et chacun sait que la mort est au bout de la boucle.
Outre les 11 vaccins obligatoires pour les bébés et les enfants, la vaccination contre le BCG, le papillomavirus humain, la grippe et le zona est ainsi recommandée en France.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ozna
- znoa
- zoan
- zonna
- zzona
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zona - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).