samarra
\sa.ˈma.ro\
The verdict
“samarra” is uncommon French (frequency #81,540 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,540
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Simarre, long vêtement de dessus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-samarra · samarra · French
samarra · rank #81,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,540
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH rêche
Nearest frequency peer: rêche (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “samarra”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- réticentes
réticentes
18,466 corpus weight
- rêche
rêche
18,462 corpus weight
- samarra
samarra
18,461 corpus weight
- samus
samus
18,459 corpus weight
- sangloter
sangloter
18,458 corpus weight
- saoulent
saoulent
18,457 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “samarra” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | samarra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.ˈma.ro\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “samarra” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
samarra is uncommon French at frequency #81,540 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.ˈma.ro\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Simarre, long vêtement de dessus.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for samarra, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is samarra, spelled S-A-M-A-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1Simarre, long vêtement de dessus.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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