Sambre
\sɑ̃bʁ\
The verdict
“Sambre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,343. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,343
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière franco-belge, affluente de la Meuse, de 190 km de long.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sambre · Sambre · French
Sambre · rank #28,343 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,343
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salafiste
Nearest frequency peer: salafiste (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sambre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- résumée
résumée
71,661 corpus weight
- révéla
révéla
71,660 corpus weight
- salafiste
salafiste
71,659 corpus weight
- Sambre
Sambre
71,658 corpus weight
- sanctionnés
sanctionnés
71,657 corpus weight
- scierie
scierie
71,656 corpus weight
What this shows « Sambre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sambre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sambre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Sambre (IPA \sɑ̃bʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,343 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rivière franco-belge, affluente de la Meuse, de 190 km de long.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sambre, with forms such as "asmbre", "sabmre", and "sambbre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "same", "sobre", "Samir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Sambre, spelled S-A-M-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Rivière franco-belge, affluente de la Meuse, de 190 km de long.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sambre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet : nᵒ 1 L’Escaut ne se jette point dans la Meuse, mais dans l'Océan ; tandis que la Sambre se jette dans la Meuse à Namur.
C’est toi qui portes la responsabilité de sa mort. On l’a repêché dans la Sambre. Il était ivre mort, paraît-il. Ivre mort ! répéta-t-il avec une sorte de délectation.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asmbre
- sabmre
- sambbre
- samber
- sambrre
- sammbre
- samrbe
- smabre
- ssambre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sambre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).