Samos
\sa.mɔs\
The verdict
“Samos” is uncommon French (frequency #52,977 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,977
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province de Lugo et la Communauté autonome de Galice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-samos · Samos · French
Samos · rank #52,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,977
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salués
Nearest frequency peer: salués (-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 « Samos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sagacité
sagacité
47,027 corpus weight
- saillantes
saillantes
47,026 corpus weight
- salués
salués
47,025 corpus weight
- Samos
Samos
47,024 corpus weight
- Sandoz
Sandoz
47,023 corpus weight
- sapphire
sapphire
47,022 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Samos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Samos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sa.mɔs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Samos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Samos is uncommon French at frequency #52,977 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sa.mɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province de Lugo et la Communauté autonome de Galice.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Samos in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Samos, spelled S-A-M-O-S.
Definition
- 1Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province de Lugo et la Communauté autonome de Galice.
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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