sam
The verdict
“sam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,285) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,285
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Du tout (combiné avec la négation).
Corpus desk
Index FR-sam · sam · French
sam · rank #4,285 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,285
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH smith
Nearest frequency peer: smith (+1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sam”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- rive
rive
95,719 corpus weight
- rois
rois
95,718 corpus weight
- sam
sam
95,716 corpus weight
- smith
smith
95,715 corpus weight
- sons
sons
95,714 corpus weight
- stupide
stupide
95,713 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sam” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “sam” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sam is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "si", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #4,285 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Du tout (combiné avec la négation).".
sam has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "si", "st", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sam, spelled S-A-M.
Definition
- 1Du tout (combiné avec la négation).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
babu mutane sam
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- "sam" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "se". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #4,285 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.