zone de friche
\zon də fʁiʃ\
The verdict
“zone de friche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble de terrains laissés à l’abandon, sur lesquels peuvent subsister des installations ou des dépôts liés à des activités passées, et qui sont susceptibles de présenter des risques de pollution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zone-de-friche · zone de friche · French
zone de friche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Z" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zone de friche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zon də fʁiʃ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zone de friche” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
zone de friche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \zon də fʁiʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ensemble de terrains laissés à l’abandon, sur lesquels peuvent subsister des installations ou des dépôts liés à des activités passées, et qui sont susceptibles de présenter des risques de pollution.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for zone de friche in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is zone de friche, spelled Z-O-N-E- -D-E- -F-R-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de terrains laissés à l’abandon, sur lesquels peuvent subsister des installations ou des dépôts liés à des activités passées, et qui sont susceptibles de présenter des risques de pollution.
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