zone saturée

\zon sa.ty.ʁe\

/\zon sa.ty.ʁe\/ noun

The verdict

“zone saturée” 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
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie du sous-sol où les roches ou les sols sont entièrement remplis d’eau, c’est-à-dire où la porosité est complètement saturée. Sa limite supérieure correspond au niveau phréatique.

Key facts for zone saturée
PropertyValue
Headwordzone saturée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\zon sa.ty.ʁe\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “zone saturée” sits in French frequency

zone saturée falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for zone saturée is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zon sa.ty.ʁe\. 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: "Partie du sous-sol où les roches ou les sols sont entièrement remplis d’eau, c’est-à-dire où la porosité est complètement saturée. Sa limite supérieure correspond au niveau phréatique.".

No misspelling variants are generated for zone saturée 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 saturée, spelled Z-O-N-E- -S-A-T-U-R-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie du sous-sol où les roches ou les sols sont entièrement remplis d’eau, c’est-à-dire où la porosité est complètement saturée. Sa limite supérieure correspond au niveau phréatique.

Synonyms

Antonyms

zone vadose

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zone saturée"?
"zone saturée" is spelled Z-O-N-E- -S-A-T-U-R-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \zon sa.ty.ʁe\.
What does "zone saturée" mean?
As a noun, "zone saturée" means: Partie du sous-sol où les roches ou les sols sont entièrement remplis d’eau, c’est-à-dire où la porosité est complètement saturée. Sa limite supérieure correspond au niveau phréatique.
How do you pronounce "zone saturée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "zone saturée" is \zon sa.ty.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "zone saturée" come from?
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Using “zone saturée”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Z-O-N-E- -S-A-T-U-R-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \zon sa.ty.ʁe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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