zoulous
\zu.lu\
The verdict
“zoulous” is uncommon French (frequency #61,994 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,994
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de zoulou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zoulous · zoulous · French
zoulous · rank #61,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,994
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zoey
Nearest frequency peer: Zoey (-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 « zoulous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Zaventem
Zaventem
38,011 corpus weight
- ZICO
ZICO
38,009 corpus weight
- Zoey
Zoey
38,008 corpus weight
- zoulous
zoulous
38,007 corpus weight
- Zulte
Zulte
38,006 corpus weight
- échouera
échouera
38,004 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zoulous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zoulous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \zu.lu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zoulous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zoulous is uncommon French at frequency #61,994 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \zu.lu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de zoulou.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zoulous, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is zoulous, spelled Z-O-U-L-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de zoulou.
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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