zouma
\zu.ma\
The verdict
“zouma” is uncommon French (frequency #78,982 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,982
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand marché qui se tient le vendredi à Antananarivo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zouma · zouma · French
zouma · rank #78,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,982
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH ziva
Nearest frequency peer: ziva (-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 « zouma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zapp
zapp
21,022 corpus weight
- zarbi
zarbi
21,021 corpus weight
- ziva
ziva
21,020 corpus weight
- zouma
zouma
21,019 corpus weight
- Zélie
Zélie
21,018 corpus weight
- Álvaro
Álvaro
21,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zouma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zouma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zu.ma\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zouma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zouma is uncommon French at frequency #78,982 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \zu.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grand marché qui se tient le vendredi à Antananarivo.".
zouma doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 zouma, spelled Z-O-U-M-A.
Definition
- 1Grand marché qui se tient le vendredi à Antananarivo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zouma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On nous expliqua aussi le zouma, immense marché sous des parasols blancs à plan rectangulaire, où l’on trouvait de tout, dans le bruit, les odeurs... et la crainte des voleurs rôdants.
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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