angora
\ɑ̃.ɡɔ.ʁa\
The verdict
“angora” is uncommon French (frequency #54,394 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,394
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Originaire de la région d’Ankara.
Corpus desk
Index FR-angora · angora · French
angora · rank #54,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,394
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH andalous
Nearest frequency peer: andalous (-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 « angora »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Amstel
Amstel
45,610 corpus weight
- anche
anche
45,609 corpus weight
- andalous
andalous
45,608 corpus weight
- angora
angora
45,607 corpus weight
- Aniston
Aniston
45,606 corpus weight
- anja
anja
45,605 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « angora » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | angora |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ɡɔ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « angora » en français
Rare enough to double-check
angora is uncommon French at frequency #54,394 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.ɡɔ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for angora in our 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is angora, spelled A-N-G-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Originaire de la région d’Ankara.
- 2Qualifie des animaux dotés de poils longs et soyeux suite à une mutation génétique spontanée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how angora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La chèvre angora habite l'Angora, villayet d’Anatolie en Asie Mineure.
Le meilleur préservatif contre les souris est un chat, non pas un chat angora, mais un chat à poil lisse et ras, rayé de gris et de brun, de la race commune appelée chat de gouttière.
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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