rara
The verdict
“rara” is uncommon French (frequency #72,666 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,666
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rythme musical haïtien caractérisé par la prédominance des percussions du vaudou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rara · rara · French
rara · rank #72,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,666
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rapatriée
Nearest frequency peer: rapatriée (-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 « rara »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rajouterais
rajouterais
27,339 corpus weight
- ramènerai
ramènerai
27,338 corpus weight
- rangeait
rangeait
27,337 corpus weight
- rapatriée
rapatriée
27,336 corpus weight
- rara
rara
27,335 corpus weight
- ratissage
ratissage
27,334 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rara » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rara » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rara is uncommon French at frequency #72,666 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rythme musical haïtien caractérisé par la prédominance des percussions du vaudou.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rara in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rara, spelled R-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Rythme musical haïtien caractérisé par la prédominance des percussions du vaudou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Il fait un rap créole très inspiré par le konpa et le rara, en plus d'ajouter une bonne dose de dubstep et d’autres styles électro», raconte Valeo.
On ne le tint plus à l’écart des coumbites, des cérémonies vaudou, des bandes-rara et des autres activités collectives du hameau.
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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