samuel

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The English entry for Samuel is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsæmjuːəl/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,261 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Samuel, with forms such as "asmuel", "sameul", and "sammuel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Saul", "Sauer", "sequel", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Samuēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl, literally “'God has set' or 'God has placed'”). Taken to mean a contraction of popular folk etymology שְׁאִלְתִּיו מֵאֵל (“I have asked/borrowed him from God”)… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Samuel, spelled S-A-M-U-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.