zone 30
\zon tʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“zone 30” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Zone urbaine où la vitesse de circulation est limitée à 30 kilomètres à l’heure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zone 30 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zon tʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zone 30” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for zone 30 is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zon tʁɑ̃t\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Zone urbaine où la vitesse de circulation est limitée à 30 kilomètres à l’heure.".
No misspelling variants are generated for zone 30 in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 30, spelled Z-O-N-E- -3-0, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Zone urbaine où la vitesse de circulation est limitée à 30 kilomètres à l’heure.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “zone 30”
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- The one correct French spelling is Z-O-N-E- -3-0 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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