onagre
\ɔ.naɡʁ\
The verdict
“onagre” 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) - Hémione (Equus hemionus).
Corpus desk
Index FR-onagre · onagre · French
onagre · 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 "O" 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 | onagre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.naɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « onagre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
onagre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.naɡʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for onagre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is onagre, spelled O-N-A-G-R-E.
Definition
- 1Hémione (Equus hemionus).
- 2L’onagre de Perse (Equus hemionus onager) est une sous-espèce d’hémione.
- 3Machine de guerre, sorte de baliste, ou de catapulte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how onagre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Latins, d'après les Grecs, ont appelé l'âne sauvage onager, onagre, qu'il ne faut pas confondre, comme l'ont fait quelques naturalistes et plusieurs voyageurs, avec le zèbre, dont nous donnerons l'histoire à part, parce que le zèbre est un animal d'une espèce différente de celle de l'âne.
Des troupeaux de chèvres à oreilles tombantes, des moutons à large queue, des ânes qui rappelaient par leur beauté l’onagre des Écritures, sortaient du village au lever de l’aurore.
Synonyms
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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.