bandoura
\bɑ̃.du.ʁa\
The verdict
“bandoura” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument à cordes pincées de forme ovoïde, traditionnel en Ukraine, notamment chez les kobzari.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bandoura · bandoura · French
bandoura · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandoura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.du.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bandoura is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑ̃.du.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument à cordes pincées de forme ovoïde, traditionnel en Ukraine, notamment chez les kobzari.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bandoura in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bandoura, spelled B-A-N-D-O-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Instrument à cordes pincées de forme ovoïde, traditionnel en Ukraine, notamment chez les kobzari.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bandoura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ensemble formé de six jeunes femmes vêtues de costumes traditionnels chante en s’accompagnant d’un instrument ukrainien la bandoura, une petite harpe à 65 cordes.
Symbole musical du peuple ukrainien, la bandoura à 65 cordes est un instrument fascinant. Aux XVe et XVIe siècles, la bandoura était l’instrument favori des Hetmans, les aristocrates ukrainiens.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.