zorro
\zo.ʁo\
The verdict
“zorro” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,132
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre dénomination du chien des buissons (Speothos venaticus).
Corpus desk
Index FR-zorro · zorro · French
zorro · rank #37,132 · 5 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,132
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH XY
Nearest frequency peer: XY (-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 « zorro »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Woodstock
Woodstock
62,872 corpus weight
- XY
XY
62,870 corpus weight
- zorro
zorro
62,869 corpus weight
- épargnant
épargnant
62,868 corpus weight
- équivalant
équivalant
62,867 corpus weight
- érigés
érigés
62,866 corpus weight
What this shows « zorro » 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 | zorro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zo.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « zorro »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around zorro (IPA \zo.ʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,132 among 240 “Z” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Autre dénomination du chien des buissons (Speothos venaticus).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for zorro, with forms such as "ozrro", "zoro", and "zoror". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "zoo", "zéro", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 zorro, spelled Z-O-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1Autre dénomination du chien des buissons (Speothos venaticus).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ozrro
- zoro
- zoror
- zroro
- zzorro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zorro - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "zorro", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).