zoophile
\zɔ.ɔ.fil\
The verdict
“zoophile” is uncommon French (frequency #77,168 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,168
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne éprouvant une attirance sexuelle envers les animaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zoophile · zoophile · French
zoophile · rank #77,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,168
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zink
Nearest frequency peer: zink (-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 « zoophile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yuna
yuna
22,836 corpus weight
- yuzu
yuzu
22,835 corpus weight
- zink
zink
22,834 corpus weight
- zoophile
zoophile
22,833 corpus weight
- Zora
Zora
22,832 corpus weight
- écrivaines
écrivaines
22,830 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zoophile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zoophile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zɔ.ɔ.fil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zoophile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zoophile is uncommon French at frequency #77,168 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \zɔ.ɔ.fil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne éprouvant une attirance sexuelle envers les animaux.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zoophile, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is zoophile, spelled Z-O-O-P-H-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Personne éprouvant une attirance sexuelle envers les animaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zoophile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le zoophile devra respecter une probation de trois ans et se soumettre à un prélèvement d’ADN.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).