sura
The verdict
“sura” is uncommon French (frequency #90,230 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,230
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de sourate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sura · sura · French
sura · rank #90,230 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,230
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supraconducte…
Nearest frequency peer: supraconducteurs (-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 « sura »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suppliques
suppliques
9,774 corpus weight
- supraconduc…
supraconducteurs
9,772 corpus weight
- sura
sura
9,771 corpus weight
- surveillero…
surveilleront
9,770 corpus weight
- suscitaient
suscitaient
9,769 corpus weight
- séjournera
séjournera
9,768 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sura » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sura » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sura is uncommon French at frequency #90,230 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de sourate.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sura in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sura, spelled S-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Variante de sourate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est dit dans le sura IV : Ne vous tuez pas vous-même, car Dieu est miséricordieux envers vous.
Les inscriptions, qui sont presque toujours des suras du Coran ou des éloges aux différents princes qui ont bâti et décoré les salles, se déroulent le long des frises, sur les jambages des portes, autour de l’arc des fenêtres, entremêlées de fleurs, de rinceaux, de lacs et de toutes les richesses de la calligraphie arabe.
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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