sambuca
The verdict
“sambuca” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liqueur italienne obtenue par distillation d’anis étoilé, et d’autres arômes végétaux comme la réglisse, additionnés d’alcool et de sucre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sambuca · sambuca · French
sambuca · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 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 | sambuca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sambuca is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Liqueur italienne obtenue par distillation d’anis étoilé, et d’autres arômes végétaux comme la réglisse, additionnés d’alcool et de sucre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sambuca in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 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 sambuca, spelled S-A-M-B-U-C-A.
Definition
- 1Liqueur italienne obtenue par distillation d’anis étoilé, et d’autres arômes végétaux comme la réglisse, additionnés d’alcool et de sucre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sambuca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je pense pas qu’elle haïssait la sambuca.
This word in other languages
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.