schola
\ˈskʰo.la\
The verdict
“schola” is uncommon French (frequency #79,728 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,728
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - École, leçon, cours, conférence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schola · schola · French
schola · rank #79,728 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,728
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scion
Nearest frequency peer: scion (+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 « schola »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saugrenu
saugrenu
20,277 corpus weight
- Scarlatti
Scarlatti
20,276 corpus weight
- schizophrén…
schizophrénique
20,275 corpus weight
- schola
schola
20,273 corpus weight
- scion
scion
20,272 corpus weight
- scélérate
scélérate
20,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « schola » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schola |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈskʰo.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « schola » en français
Rare enough to double-check
schola is uncommon French at frequency #79,728 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈskʰo.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for schola in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is schola, spelled S-C-H-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1École, leçon, cours, conférence.
- 2École, lieu où se déroule l’enseignement.
- 3École, secte philosophique.
- 4Galerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how schola appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non scholae sed vitae discimus.
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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