hora

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hora » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for hora
PropertyValue
Headwordhora
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#58,006
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « hora » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.horatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « homogénéisation » (#58,005), « hire » (#58,004), « Huey » (#58,008). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « hora » est au #58,006. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Danse traditionnelle roumaine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how hora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hora"?
"hora" is spelled H-O-R-A.
What does "hora" mean?
As a noun, "hora" means: Danse traditionnelle roumaine.
What language does "hora" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hora", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list