hora
The verdict
“hora” is uncommon French (frequency #58,006 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,006
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse traditionnelle roumaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hora · hora · French
hora · rank #58,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,006
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homogénéisati…
Nearest frequency peer: homogénéisation (-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 « hora »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Helvètes
Helvètes
41,998 corpus weight
- hire
hire
41,997 corpus weight
- homogénéisa…
homogénéisation
41,996 corpus weight
- hora
hora
41,995 corpus weight
- Huey
Huey
41,993 corpus weight
- HuffPost
HuffPost
41,992 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hora » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hora |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hora » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hora is uncommon French at frequency #58,006 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Danse traditionnelle roumaine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hora in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hora, spelled H-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Danse traditionnelle roumaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Roumanie abrite également la hora, danse traditionnelle apparue au XVIIᵉ siècle, exécutée lors de mariages ou de fêtes populaires, mais elle est avant tout la danse des jeunes gens à marier.
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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