zouzous
\zu.zu\
The verdict
“zouzous” is uncommon French (frequency #86,334 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,334
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de zouzou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zouzous · zouzous · French
zouzous · rank #86,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,334
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zooms
Nearest frequency peer: zooms (-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 « zouzous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zoner
zoner
13,670 corpus weight
- zoomez
zoomez
13,669 corpus weight
- zooms
zooms
13,668 corpus weight
- zouzous
zouzous
13,667 corpus weight
- ébranlées
ébranlées
13,666 corpus weight
- écrasantes
écrasantes
13,665 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zouzous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zouzous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zu.zu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zouzous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zouzous is uncommon French at frequency #86,334 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \zu.zu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de zouzou.".
zouzous doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 zouzous, spelled Z-O-U-Z-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de zouzou.
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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