nagara
\na.ɡa.ʁa\
The verdict
“nagara” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument à percussion consistant en une paire de timbales fort sonores, très répandu en Inde et dans le monde arabe, et qui fut importé dans l'Europe médiévale par les Croisés, qui l'appelaient n...
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Index FR-nagara · nagara · French
nagara · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" 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 | nagara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.ɡa.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nagara » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nagara is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \na.ɡa.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument à percussion consistant en une paire de timbales fort sonores, très répandu en Inde et dans le monde arabe, et qui fut importé dans l'Europe médiévale par les Croisés, qui l'appelaient n...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nagara, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nagara, spelled N-A-G-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Instrument à percussion consistant en une paire de timbales fort sonores, très répandu en Inde et dans le monde arabe, et qui fut importé dans l'Europe médiévale par les Croisés, qui l'appelaient nacaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nagara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sultan Mansour-Chah vint pour le faire enterrer, et lui accorda les honneurs du parasol, du (tambour appelé) gandang, de la flûte (sarouney), de la trompette (nafiri) et des timbales (nagara).
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.