zoom
\zum\
The verdict
“zoom” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,698
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agrandissement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zoom · zoom · French
zoom · rank #12,698 · 5 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,698
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zemmour
Nearest frequency peer: zemmour (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « zoom »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Yannick
Yannick
87,306 corpus weight
- yeah
yeah
87,305 corpus weight
- zemmour
zemmour
87,304 corpus weight
- zoom
zoom
87,303 corpus weight
- échouer
échouer
87,302 corpus weight
- équivaut
équivaut
87,301 corpus weight
What this shows « zoom » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zoom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zum\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « zoom »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around zoom (IPA \zum\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,698 among 240 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for zoom, with forms such as "ozom", "zom", and "zomo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "zou", "zum", "zoos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is zoom, spelled Z-O-O-M.
Definition
- 1Agrandissement.
- 2Objectif photographique dont la focale réglable est supérieure à la diagonale de la scène et qui a pour effet de rapprocher cette scène, donc de permettre un cadrage plus serré grâce à un angle de champ étroit et variable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zoom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De l’intérieur d’un wagon de marchandises en attente à la gare de Treblinka, par la lucarne autrefois grillagée, j’ai filmé, en un lent zoom avant, la pancarte au nom pour moi terrifiant, mais qui ne signifiait rien pour les malheureux pressés depuis des heures ou des jours les uns contre les autres, telle que je m’imaginais qu’ils la découvraient dans le…
Enfin, le design du site permet de mettre en valeur les couteaux à travers des zooms qui permettent d’apprécier la ligne du couteau et aussi chaque détail de finition […]
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ozom
- zom
- zomo
- zoomm
- zzoom
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zoom - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).