Bassorah
\ba.sɔ.ʁa\
The verdict
“Bassorah” is uncommon French (frequency #86,454 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,454
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Irak.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bassorah · Bassorah · French
Bassorah · rank #86,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,454
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Batiscan
Nearest frequency peer: Batiscan (+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 « Bassorah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bandicoot
bandicoot
13,551 corpus weight
- baobabs
baobabs
13,550 corpus weight
- baran
baran
13,549 corpus weight
- Bassorah
Bassorah
13,547 corpus weight
- Batiscan
Batiscan
13,546 corpus weight
- Bazille
Bazille
13,545 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bassorah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bassorah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.sɔ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bassorah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bassorah is uncommon French at frequency #86,454 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ba.sɔ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Irak.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bassorah, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Bassorah, spelled B-A-S-S-O-R-A-H.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Irak.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bassorah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me fallut alors attendre deux jours avant de reprendre la route qui était encore longue : Chouster, Ahvaz, enfin la périlleuse traversée des marécages jusqu’à Bassorah, ville de l’Irak ottoman sur le Chatt-el-Arab.
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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