zoo sans barreaux
\zɔ.ɔ sɑ̃ ba.ʁo\
The verdict
“zoo sans barreaux” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Type particulier de zoo conçu sur le modèle du panorama des sciences naturelles breveté par Hagenbeck en 1896, où les animaux sauvages semblant cohabiter sont séparés par des fossés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zoo sans barreaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zɔ.ɔ sɑ̃ ba.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zoo sans barreaux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for zoo sans barreaux is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \zɔ.ɔ sɑ̃ ba.ʁo\. 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: "Type particulier de zoo conçu sur le modèle du panorama des sciences naturelles breveté par Hagenbeck en 1896, où les animaux sauvages semblant cohabiter sont séparés par des fossés.".
No misspelling variants are generated for zoo sans barreaux 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 zoo sans barreaux, spelled Z-O-O- -S-A-N-S- -B-A-R-R-E-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Type particulier de zoo conçu sur le modèle du panorama des sciences naturelles breveté par Hagenbeck en 1896, où les animaux sauvages semblant cohabiter sont séparés par des fossés.
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Using “zoo sans barreaux”
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- The one correct French spelling is Z-O-O- -S-A-N-S- -B-A-R-R-E-A-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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