Samoa américaines
\sa.mo.a a.me.ʁi.kɛn\
The verdict
“Samoa américaines” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie de l’archipel des Samoa dans le Pacifique dépendant des États-Unis d’Amérique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Samoa américaines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.mo.a a.me.ʁi.kɛn\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Samoa américaines” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Samoa américaines is 17 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.mo.a a.me.ʁi.kɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Samoa américaines in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Samoa américaines, spelled S-A-M-O-A- -A-M-É-R-I-C-A-I-N-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie de l’archipel des Samoa dans le Pacifique dépendant des États-Unis d’Amérique.
- 2Territoire non incorporé et non organisé des États-Unis d’Amérique, constitué de la moitié orientale des Samoa. Sa capitale constitutionnelle est Fagatogo et la capitale de facto est Pago Pago.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-M-O-A- -A-M-É-R-I-C-A-I-N-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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