Bassora
\ba.sɔ.ʁa\
The verdict
“Bassora” is uncommon French (frequency #75,434 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,434
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Bassorah.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bassora · Bassora · French
Bassora · rank #75,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,434
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basa
Nearest frequency peer: basa (-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 « Bassora »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baltringue
baltringue
24,571 corpus weight
- barka
barka
24,570 corpus weight
- basa
basa
24,568 corpus weight
- Bassora
Bassora
24,567 corpus weight
- baudis
baudis
24,566 corpus weight
- Bertignac
Bertignac
24,563 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bassora » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bassora |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.sɔ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bassora » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bassora is uncommon French at frequency #75,434 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ba.sɔ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de Bassorah.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Bassora in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 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 Bassora, spelled B-A-S-S-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Variante de Bassorah.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bassora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand il visite La Mecque, ses détracteurs ricanent à l’unisson : « Pèlerinage de complaisance ! » Quand, au retour, il passe par Bassora, le fils du cadi de la ville vient lui demander, le plus poliment du monde, d’écourter son séjour.
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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