same
French, noun\sam\
same is spelled S-A-M-E (4 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Same is a French feminine noun meaning “Sami” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue finno-ougrienne parlée en Laponie. Code ISO 639-2 : smi, code général à tous les dialectes sames”.
What does same mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Sami
noun
- 1
femininemasculineSami
noun
- 1
masculineSami (language)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Langue finno-ougrienne parlée en Laponie. Code ISO 639-2 : smi, code général à tous les dialectes sames.
adjective: 1. Relatif à un certain peuple lapon habitant au nord de la Scandinavie.
noun: 1. Variante de Sami
noun: 1. Langue finno-ougrienne parlée en Laponie. Code ISO 639-2 : smi, code général à tous les dialectes sames.
adjective: 1. Relatif à un certain peuple lapon habitant au nord de la Scandinavie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of same
- sames plural
- sâme
- Sames plural
- same
- sâmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce same?
- \sam\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to same
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is same in French?
same appears 2.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).