Samarcande
\sa.maʁ.kɑ̃d\
The verdict
“Samarcande” is uncommon French (frequency #90,167 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,167
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Ouzbékistan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-samarcande · Samarcande · French
Samarcande · rank #90,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,167
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salvadoriens
Nearest frequency peer: salvadoriens (-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 « Samarcande »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- révolutionn…
révolutionnent
9,840 corpus weight
- saccadés
saccadés
9,839 corpus weight
- salty
salty
9,836 corpus weight
- salvadoriens
salvadoriens
9,835 corpus weight
- Samarcande
Samarcande
9,834 corpus weight
- sanne
sanne
9,829 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Samarcande » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Samarcande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.maʁ.kɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Samarcande » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Samarcande is uncommon French at frequency #90,167 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sa.maʁ.kɑ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Ouzbékistan.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Samarcande, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Samarcande, spelled S-A-M-A-R-C-A-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Ouzbékistan.
This word in other languages
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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