zone
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#748
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
zone is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bande ou marque plus ou moins circulaire. Pronounced \zon\. It ranks #748 in French word frequency. Often confused with zoo and zou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zon\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for zone is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zon\. Corpus data places it at rank #748 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for zone, with forms such as "ozne", "znoe", and "zoen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "zoo", "zou", "zoom", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is zone, spelled Z-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bande ou marque plus ou moins circulaire.
- 2Chacune des cinq grandes divisions du globe terrestre, que l’on conçoit séparées par des cercles parallèles à l’équateur.
- 3Bande claire qui traverse les disques planétaires de Jupiter et de Saturne, par opposition aux bandes, plus sombres.
- 4Partie visible des couches superposées dont certains terrains, certaines pierres, sont formées.
- 5Portion de la surface d’une sphère comprise entre deux plans parallèles.
- 6Partie d'une mémoire (morte ou vive), distinguée par sa fonction, son appartenance, ou d'autres de ses propriétés.
- 7Espace quelconque qui se distingue par un trait particulier.
- 8Quartier pauvre, banlieue, ceinture d’une agglomération.
- 9Exprime un désordre, le bazar, le bordel.
- 10Partie d'un domaine ou d'un sous-domaine gérée par un serveur autoritaire.
- 11Mot utilisé pour décrire l'état de concentration ultime.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ozne,znoe,zoen,zonne,zzone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for zone
Misspelling Variants of "zone"
Frequency rank: #748 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter Z in our French index: