Samarkand
\samaʁˈkant\
The verdict
“Samarkand” is uncommon French (frequency #84,288 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,288
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Samarcande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-samarkand · Samarkand · French
Samarkand · rank #84,288 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,288
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Samain
Nearest frequency peer: Samain (-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 « Samarkand »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- sankt
sankt
15,711 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Samarkand » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Samarkand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \samaʁˈkant\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Samarkand » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Samarkand is uncommon French at frequency #84,288 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \samaʁˈkant\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Samarcande.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Samarkand in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Samarkand, spelled S-A-M-A-R-K-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Samarcande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Samarkand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selber Sohn eines kleinen Offiziers, verließ Brodsky die Schule schon früh und arbeitete als Fräser, als Sezierer im Leichenschauhaus und als Assistent bei geologischen Expeditionen in Jakutien. Mit einem Ganovenfreund fuhr er nach Samarkand, von wo aus er versuchte, ein Flugzeug zu entführen und Afghanistan zu erreichen.
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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