Zug
\dzuɡ\
The verdict
“Zug” is uncommon French (frequency #98,655 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,655
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zug · Zug · French
Zug · rank #98,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,655
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zorba
Nearest frequency peer: Zorba (-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 « Zug »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Zerbo
Zerbo
1,350 corpus weight
- Zorba
Zorba
1,347 corpus weight
- Zug
Zug
1,346 corpus weight
- zébus
zébus
1,345 corpus weight
- écarteurs
écarteurs
1,344 corpus weight
- échouaient
échouaient
1,343 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Zug » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zug |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dzuɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #98,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Zug » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Zug is uncommon French at frequency #98,655 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dzuɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Zug, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Zug, spelled Z-U-G.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville de Suisse.
- 2Canton de Suisse dont la ville de Zug est le chef-lieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zug appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gouvernement en est purement démocratique, & la souveraine autorité réside dans l'assemblée du pays, qui se tient tous les ans, le premier jour de mai dans la ville de Zug, laquelle tous les mâles, âgés de 16 ans & au dessus, ont droit d'assister. Le canton est divisé en cinq parties, entre lesquels la ville de Zug est comptée pour deux.
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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