samsonite
"samsonite" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“samsonite” is uncommon English (frequency #79,937 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,937
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A black, monoclinic silver manganese antimony sulfosalt mineral.
Corpus desk
Index EN-samsonite · samsonite · English
samsonite · rank #79,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,937
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sambal
Nearest frequency peer: sambal (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “samsonite”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- rudimental
rudimental
20,071 corpus weight
- Salafist
Salafist
20,067 corpus weight
- sambal
sambal
20,065 corpus weight
- samsonite
samsonite
20,064 corpus weight
- sango
sango
20,063 corpus weight
- Satomi
Satomi
20,059 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “samsonite” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | samsonite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “samsonite” in English
Rare enough to double-check
samsonite is uncommon English at frequency #79,937 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A black, monoclinic silver manganese antimony sulfosalt mineral.".
No misspelling variants are generated for samsonite in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Samson + -ite, after an occurrence in the Samson Vein of the Sankt Andreasberg silver mines, Harz Mountains, Germany. The correct English form is samsonite, spelled S-A-M-S-O-N-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1A black, monoclinic silver manganese antimony sulfosalt mineral.
Etymology
From Samson + -ite, after an occurrence in the Samson Vein of the Sankt Andreasberg silver mines, Harz Mountains, Germany.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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