señora
\sɛ.ɲɔ.ʁa\
The verdict
“señora” is uncommon French (frequency #56,924 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,924
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dame, en Espagne ou dans les pays hispanophones.
Corpus desk
Index FR-senora · señora · French
señora · rank #56,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,924
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sextape
Nearest frequency peer: sextape (-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 « señora »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sergi
Sergi
43,081 corpus weight
- Sevilla
Sevilla
43,080 corpus weight
- sextape
sextape
43,078 corpus weight
- señora
señora
43,077 corpus weight
- shopper
shopper
43,076 corpus weight
- sidération
sidération
43,074 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « señora » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | señora |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.ɲɔ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « señora » en français
Rare enough to double-check
señora is uncommon French at frequency #56,924 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ.ɲɔ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
señora has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is señora, spelled S-E-Ñ-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Dame, en Espagne ou dans les pays hispanophones.
- 2Parfois utilisé pour introduire le nom d'une dame espagnole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how señora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voit aussi des gens de la campagne qui arrivent à cheval, la carabine à l’arçon de la selle ; d’autres sur des ânes, seuls ou avec leurs femmes ; tout cela sans compter les calèches des gens du grand monde, et une foule d’honnêtes citadins et de señoras en mantille qui se hâtent et pressent le pas.
Après avoir longuement réfléchi, la señora Galina prend le parti d'ouvrir le pli, afin, s'il est nécessaire, de préparer la reine avec ménagements à la pénible nouvelle.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).