# Samar vs Sami

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Samar
*name · IPA /ˈsa.mɐɾ/ · frequency rank #37,666*
An island of Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Philippines.

### Sami
*noun · IPA /ˈsɑːmi/ · frequency rank #18,686*
A member of an indigenous Finno-Ugric people of Lapland.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/samar-vs-sami