samare
\sa.maʁ\
The verdict
“samare” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Akène dont le péricarpe se prolonge par une excroissance en forme d’aile qui favorise une dissémination de la graine par le vent. (→ voir anémochorie).
Corpus desk
Index FR-samare · samare · French
samare · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | samare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
samare is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.maʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Akène dont le péricarpe se prolonge par une excroissance en forme d’aile qui favorise une dissémination de la graine par le vent. (→ voir anémochorie).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for samare, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is samare, spelled S-A-M-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Akène dont le péricarpe se prolonge par une excroissance en forme d’aile qui favorise une dissémination de la graine par le vent. (→ voir anémochorie).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how samare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les érables, le frêne, l’orme ou le tulipier sont des arbres à samares.
Il aimait le tronc bossué de l’orme, dont chaque loupe pousse, avec de tendres rejetons, des touffes de feuilles dentelées et des samares de papier.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.