Zulu
\ˈzu.lu\
The verdict
“Zulu” is uncommon French (frequency #61,236 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,236
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zoulou (homme ou femme).
Corpus desk
Index FR-zulu · Zulu · French
Zulu · rank #61,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,236
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zia
Nearest frequency peer: zia (-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 « Zulu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yaoi
yaoi
38,769 corpus weight
- zia
zia
38,766 corpus weight
- Zulu
Zulu
38,765 corpus weight
- échangistes
échangistes
38,764 corpus weight
- écoulant
écoulant
38,763 corpus weight
- écrasait
écrasait
38,762 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Zulu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zulu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈzu.lu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Zulu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Zulu is uncommon French at frequency #61,236 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈzu.lu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zoulou (homme ou femme).".
Zulu has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists 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 Zulu, spelled Z-U-L-U.
Definition
- 1Zoulou (homme ou femme).
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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