samp
/samp/noun
samp is a noun meaning “An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-M-P and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of samp is samps.
What does samp mean?
noun
- 1
USAn article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it.
noun
- 1
Abbreviation of adenylosuccinic acid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce samp?
- UK /samp/
Samp has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-samp.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of samp
- samps plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is samp?
Samp appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does samp come from?
From Massachusett nasamp, nasaump (“softened with water”); compare suppawn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).