sambo
\sˈɐ̃.bu\
The verdict
“sambo” is uncommon French (frequency #85,255 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,255
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sambar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sambo · sambo · French
sambo · rank #85,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,255
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sacramentelle
Nearest frequency peer: sacramentelle (-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 « sambo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- résistaient
résistaient
14,751 corpus weight
- résonateur
résonateur
14,750 corpus weight
- sablée
sablée
14,748 corpus weight
- sacramentel…
sacramentelle
14,747 corpus weight
- sambo
sambo
14,746 corpus weight
- Saulieu
Saulieu
14,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sambo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sambo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sˈɐ̃.bu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sambo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sambo is uncommon French at frequency #85,255 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sˈɐ̃.bu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sambar.".
sambo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sambo, spelled S-A-M-B-O.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sambar.
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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