ZUP
\zyp\
The verdict
“ZUP” is uncommon French (frequency #67,220 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,220
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zone à urbaniser en priorité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zup · ZUP · French
ZUP · rank #67,220 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,220
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH Zhejiang
Nearest frequency peer: Zhejiang (-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 « ZUP »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Zarathoustra
Zarathoustra
32,784 corpus weight
- Zhejiang
Zhejiang
32,782 corpus weight
- ZUP
ZUP
32,781 corpus weight
- échangisme
échangisme
32,779 corpus weight
- échappements
échappements
32,778 corpus weight
- écrasera
écrasera
32,777 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ZUP » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ZUP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \zyp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ZUP » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ZUP is uncommon French at frequency #67,220 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \zyp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zone à urbaniser en priorité.".
ZUP doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ZUP, spelled Z-U-P.
Definition
- 1Zone à urbaniser en priorité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ZUP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Seine-et-Marne ne manquera pas de ZUP. Ce même jour d'aout 1959, Pierre Sudreau signe aussi l'arrêté de création de la zone du plateau de Surville à Montereau-Fault-Yonne. […]. Même motif qu'à Meaux : le desserrement orbital.
Deux semaines plus tôt, la BAC avait été prise à partie par des mômes de la ZUP et, en représailles, les flics avaient organisé une descente plutôt bien renseignée dans quelques apparts de la tour Degas. D’après ce qui se racontait, la moitié de la famille Meryem avait plus ou moins été mise en taule et depuis, on ne trouvait plus un grat’ dans toute la v…
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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