Poura
\pu.ʁa\
The verdict
“Poura” is uncommon French (frequency #81,451 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,451
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de la province de Balé de la région de la Boucle du Mouhoun au Burkina Faso.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poura · Poura · French
Poura · rank #81,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,451
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH possessivité
Nearest frequency peer: possessivité (-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 « Poura »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pommette
pommette
18,553 corpus weight
- poseraient
poseraient
18,552 corpus weight
- possessivité
possessivité
18,551 corpus weight
- Poura
Poura
18,550 corpus weight
- poussais
poussais
18,549 corpus weight
- pressurisée
pressurisée
18,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Poura » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Poura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pu.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Poura » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Poura is uncommon French at frequency #81,451 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pu.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Poura doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Poura, spelled P-O-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Ville de la province de Balé de la région de la Boucle du Mouhoun au Burkina Faso.
- 2Département de la province de Balé de la région de la Boucle du Mouhoun au Burkina Faso.
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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