samara
\sa.ma.ʁa\
The verdict
“samara” is uncommon French (frequency #55,582 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,582
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sandale à semelle plate maintenue par une lanière qui se glisse entre les deux premiers orteils.
Corpus desk
Index FR-samara · samara · French
samara · rank #55,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,582
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sanctionnant
Nearest frequency peer: sanctionnant (+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 « samara »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réparées
réparées
44,423 corpus weight
- samara
samara
44,419 corpus weight
- sanctionnant
sanctionnant
44,418 corpus weight
- Sancy
Sancy
44,417 corpus weight
- scapulaire
scapulaire
44,416 corpus weight
- scarabées
scarabées
44,415 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « samara » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | samara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ma.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « samara » en français
Rare enough to double-check
samara is uncommon French at frequency #55,582 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.ma.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sandale à semelle plate maintenue par une lanière qui se glisse entre les deux premiers orteils.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for samara in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is samara, spelled S-A-M-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Sandale à semelle plate maintenue par une lanière qui se glisse entre les deux premiers orteils.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how samara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le nouvel équipement était plus léger, en toile beige et rêche, mais n’était ni seyant ni confortable, avec des samaras et le casque en liège. Nous étions prêts à affronter « les Colonies ! »
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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