achoura
\a.ʃu.ʁa\
The verdict
“achoura” is uncommon French (frequency #76,277 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,277
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fête religieuse musulmane célébrée dix jours après le jour de l'an musulman (le 1ᵉʳ mouharram de l'Hégire).
Corpus desk
Index FR-achoura · achoura · French
achoura · rank #76,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,277
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acquière
Nearest frequency peer: acquière (+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 « achoura »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- academic
academic
23,728 corpus weight
- accueillant…
accueillantes
23,726 corpus weight
- achoura
achoura
23,724 corpus weight
- acquière
acquière
23,723 corpus weight
- acétylcholi…
acétylcholine
23,722 corpus weight
- Adami
Adami
23,721 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « achoura » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | achoura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʃu.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « achoura » en français
Rare enough to double-check
achoura is uncommon French at frequency #76,277 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʃu.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fête religieuse musulmane célébrée dix jours après le jour de l'an musulman (le 1ᵉʳ mouharram de l'Hégire).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for achoura, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is achoura, spelled A-C-H-O-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Fête religieuse musulmane célébrée dix jours après le jour de l'an musulman (le 1ᵉʳ mouharram de l'Hégire).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how achoura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fête de l’achoura.
Au Djerid, les Chabbia de Bit-ech-Cheria ne mangent pas de poule le jour de l’achoura, contrevenant ainsi à une coutume quasi générale.
This word in other languages
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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