zurichois
\zy.ʁi.kwa\
The verdict
“zurichois” is uncommon French (frequency #68,748 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,748
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Zurich en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zurichois · zurichois · French
zurichois · rank #68,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,748
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH écarquillés
Nearest frequency peer: écarquillés (+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 « zurichois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Yahweh
Yahweh
31,255 corpus weight
- zurichois
zurichois
31,253 corpus weight
- écarquillés
écarquillés
31,252 corpus weight
- écarta
écarta
31,251 corpus weight
- échangeables
échangeables
31,250 corpus weight
- élancés
élancés
31,248 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « zurichois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zurichois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \zy.ʁi.kwa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « zurichois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
zurichois is uncommon French at frequency #68,748 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \zy.ʁi.kwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à Zurich en Suisse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for zurichois in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is zurichois, spelled Z-U-R-I-C-H-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Zurich en Suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zurichois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un accord entre l'Ukraine et la Suisse prévoit la livraison, jusqu'à fin 2008, de 25 anciens tramways des transports publics zurichois à la ville de Vinnitsa.
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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