Samain
\sa.mɛ̃\
The verdict
“Samain” is uncommon French (frequency #84,287 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,287
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première des quatre grandes fêtes religieuses de l’année celtique protohistorique, fêtée durant la semaine de la première pleine lune de novembre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-samain · Samain · French
Samain · rank #84,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,287
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salvation
Nearest frequency peer: salvation (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Samain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sadek
Sadek
15,717 corpus weight
- Salvadorien
Salvadorien
15,716 corpus weight
- salvation
salvation
15,715 corpus weight
- Samain
Samain
15,714 corpus weight
- Samarkand
Samarkand
15,713 corpus weight
- sandbox
sandbox
15,712 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Samain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Samain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Samain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Samain is uncommon French at frequency #84,287 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.mɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première des quatre grandes fêtes religieuses de l’année celtique protohistorique, fêtée durant la semaine de la première pleine lune de novembre.".
Samain has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Samain, spelled S-A-M-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Première des quatre grandes fêtes religieuses de l’année celtique protohistorique, fêtée durant la semaine de la première pleine lune de novembre.
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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