zozo
\zɔ.zo\
The verdict
“zozo” is uncommon French (frequency #69,537 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,537
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bête ; niais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zozo · zozo · French
zozo · rank #69,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,537
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH écartait
Nearest frequency peer: écartait (+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 « zozo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- webdesign
webdesign
30,469 corpus weight
- zozo
zozo
30,464 corpus weight
- écartait
écartait
30,463 corpus weight
- édicter
édicter
30,462 corpus weight
- édictée
édictée
30,461 corpus weight
- électrochocs
électrochocs
30,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zozo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zozo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \zɔ.zo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zozo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zozo is uncommon French at frequency #69,537 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \zɔ.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bête ; niais.".
zozo has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is zozo, spelled Z-O-Z-O.
Definition
- 1Bête ; niais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zozo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je repasse dans ma tête le petit compliment un peu zozo, œuvre d’Antonin Rabastens, que je réciterai tout à l’heure.
— Si j’ai vu la momie ? Complètement zozo, notre curé ! fit-elle en se touchant deux fois la tempe avec l’index.
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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