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Not especially. (I guess it depends on what you consider "rare"; one source I found indicated that about one out of 20 cats was white.)
There are three ways a cat can turn out white:
It can have the gene for white coat color (self white... what you probably mean by "pure white").
It can have the gene for white spotting, and be "spotted" so extensively that it appears to be self white with maybe a few colored hairs in some inconspicuous place.
It can be an albino, meaning there's a genetic defect such that it doesn't produce the normal color pigments despite having the genes for them. (There are several different reasons this can happen.)
There tend to be less white cats than other colors, but I wouldn't say they are rare.
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