menorah
\me.nɔ.ʁa\
The verdict
“menorah” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre orthographe de menora.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menorah · menorah · French
menorah · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menorah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.nɔ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « menorah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
menorah is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.nɔ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Autre orthographe de menora.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for menorah, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is menorah, spelled M-E-N-O-R-A-H.
Definition
- 1Autre orthographe de menora.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how menorah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux sept lampes suspendues répond, comme un lointain écho, la menorah.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.