hourra
^((h aspiré))\u.ʁa\
The verdict
“hourra” is uncommon French (frequency #50,890 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,890
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cri d’acclamation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hourra · hourra · French
hourra · rank #50,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,890
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hooker
Nearest frequency peer: hooker (-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 « hourra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hollandaises
hollandaises
49,114 corpus weight
- hologrammes
hologrammes
49,113 corpus weight
- hooker
hooker
49,112 corpus weight
- hourra
hourra
49,111 corpus weight
- Howell
Howell
49,110 corpus weight
- hésitaient
hésitaient
49,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hourra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hourra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\u.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hourra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hourra is uncommon French at frequency #50,890 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\u.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for hourra in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hourra, spelled H-O-U-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1Cri d’acclamation.
- 2Acclamation pour accueillir un souverain, un général, un amiral, un grand personnage, un orateur, etc.
- 3Acclamation poussée en l’honneur de quelqu’un.
- 4Cri de certaines troupes étrangères, russes notamment, montant à l'assaut ou engageant une action.
- 5Attaque.
- 6Cri de guerre de certains bâtiments de la marine nationale française.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hourra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je crie toujours hourra, dit le yeoman, quand je vois un beau coup vaillamment porté.
Le général victorieux entra dans la ville au milieu des hourras de la population.
Synonyms
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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