Zora
\zo.ʁa\
The verdict
“Zora” is uncommon French (frequency #77,169 among 240 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,169
- frequency rank, French
- 240
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-zora · Zora · French
Zora · rank #77,169 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,169
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 240
- PHOTO-FINISH zoophile
Nearest frequency peer: zoophile (-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 « Zora »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- yuzu
yuzu
22,835 corpus weight
- zink
zink
22,834 corpus weight
- zoophile
zoophile
22,833 corpus weight
- Zora
Zora
22,832 corpus weight
- écrivaines
écrivaines
22,830 corpus weight
- écroulés
écroulés
22,829 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Zora » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zora |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \zo.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Zora » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Zora is uncommon French at frequency #77,169 among 240 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \zo.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Zora 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Zora, spelled Z-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le remariage rapide de son père fait scandale. Zora est expédiée en pension dans une autre ville.
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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