phra
\fʁa\
The verdict
“phra” is uncommon French (frequency #68,542 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,542
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moine ou prêtre bouddhiste de Thaïlande ou de Birmanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phra · phra · French
phra · rank #68,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,542
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pharynx
Nearest frequency peer: pharynx (-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 « phra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perruches
perruches
31,462 corpus weight
- perçants
perçants
31,461 corpus weight
- pharynx
pharynx
31,460 corpus weight
- phra
phra
31,459 corpus weight
- phytoplanct…
phytoplancton
31,458 corpus weight
- pian
pian
31,457 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phra is uncommon French at frequency #68,542 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Moine ou prêtre bouddhiste de Thaïlande ou de Birmanie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for phra in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is phra, spelled P-H-R-A.
Definition
- 1Moine ou prêtre bouddhiste de Thaïlande ou de Birmanie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how phra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici ce que l'on entend par un phra dans le système bouddhiste. C'est un être qui, pendant des myriades d'existences différentes, a travaillé à acquérir une prodigieuse quantité de mérites.
Un phra doit garder 1'abstinence de toute nourriture depuis midi jusqu'au lendemain matin. Un phra ne peut sortir sans avoir un eventail, tenu de manière à ce que sa vue ne se porte pas à plus de deux mètres devant lui.
Synonyms
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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