ora
\ɔ.ʁo\
The verdict
“ora” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,161) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,161
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage très précoce donnant du raisin de table qui se présente en grosses grappes avec de très gros grains jaune d'or. Il s'agit d'un cépage issu d'un croisement entre le cépage cardinal et une esp...
Corpus desk
Index FR-ora · ora · French
ora · rank #31,161 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,161
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH optimisé
Nearest frequency peer: optimisé (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ora »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ogives
ogives
68,843 corpus weight
- opaques
opaques
68,842 corpus weight
- optimisé
optimisé
68,841 corpus weight
- ora
ora
68,840 corpus weight
- ouvrons
ouvrons
68,839 corpus weight
- Ouzbékistan
Ouzbékistan
68,838 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ora » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ora |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ora »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ora is neighbouring look-alikes ("ou", "os", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɔ.ʁo\. Frequency #31,161 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Cépage très précoce donnant du raisin de table qui se présente en grosses grappes avec de très gros grains jaune d'or. Il s'agit d'un cépage issu d'un croisement entre le cépage cardinal et une esp...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ora, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ou", "os", "ow", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ora, spelled O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Cépage très précoce donnant du raisin de table qui se présente en grosses grappes avec de très gros grains jaune d'or. Il s'agit d'un cépage issu d'un croisement entre le cépage cardinal et une espèce issue du croisement entre perle de Csaba et cinsaut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s'agit aussi de raisins de table tels que lival N et ribol N, obtenus en 1976, ora B et carla N en 1990, ….
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).