zoologiste
\zɔ.ɔ.lɔ.ʒist\
The verdict
“zoologiste” is uncommon French (frequency #78,068 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,068
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui s’adonne à la zoologie, qui en traite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zoologiste · zoologiste · French
zoologiste · rank #78,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,068
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zot
Nearest frequency peer: zot (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « zoologiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yat
yat
21,937 corpus weight
- yucca
yucca
21,935 corpus weight
- zoologiste
zoologiste
21,933 corpus weight
- zot
zot
21,932 corpus weight
- zwei
zwei
21,930 corpus weight
- échauffés
échauffés
21,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zoologiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zoologiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zɔ.ɔ.lɔ.ʒist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zoologiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zoologiste is uncommon French at frequency #78,068 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \zɔ.ɔ.lɔ.ʒist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui s’adonne à la zoologie, qui en traite.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for zoologiste, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is zoologiste, spelled Z-O-O-L-O-G-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui s’adonne à la zoologie, qui en traite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zoologiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voit dès lors qu'il n'est point indifférent de représenter une coquille d'une manière ou d'une autre, et qu'il importe au zoologiste ou au paléontologue de donner aux géologues des points de comparaison sur lesquels ceux-ci puissent s'appuyer pour reconnaître l'état des couches à l'instant où les êtres qui y sont enfermés ont été recouvert de nouveaux…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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