# sora

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #29,471

## Definitions
1. A rail (Porzana carolina) bird of North, Central, and northern South America.

## Etymology
Early 19th-century sources observe that this term was in use in Virginia; presumably it is from an Indigenous American language of that area.

## Easily confused with
- **spa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-spa)
- **sox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sox)
- **soy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-soy)
- **sow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sow)
- **SOS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sos)
- **STA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sta)
- **STR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-str)
- **sou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sou)
- **SSA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-ssa)
- **SPR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-spr)
- **sot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sot)
- **sov** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sov)
- **sry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sry)
- **sure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sure)
- **sort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sort)
- **soul** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-soul)
- **soup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-soup)
- **sore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sore)
- **sour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sour)
- **surf** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-surf)

## Common misspellings (4)
`osra`, `sorra`, `sroa`, `ssora`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sora