samovar
\sa.mɔ.vaʁ\
The verdict
“samovar” is uncommon French (frequency #92,161 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,161
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouilloire en métal à deux étages, l’étage inférieur contenant de l’eau chaude, l’étage supérieur contenant le thé qui infuse dans un peu d'eau, qui sert à faire le thé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-samovar · samovar · French
samovar · rank #92,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,161
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Salses
Nearest frequency peer: Salses (-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 « samovar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- saliens
saliens
7,843 corpus weight
- salopettes
salopettes
7,842 corpus weight
- Salses
Salses
7,841 corpus weight
- samovar
samovar
7,840 corpus weight
- sanga
sanga
7,839 corpus weight
- santer
santer
7,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « samovar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | samovar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.mɔ.vaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « samovar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
samovar is uncommon French at frequency #92,161 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.mɔ.vaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bouilloire en métal à deux étages, l’étage inférieur contenant de l’eau chaude, l’étage supérieur contenant le thé qui infuse dans un peu d'eau, qui sert à faire le thé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for samovar, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is samovar, spelled S-A-M-O-V-A-R.
Definition
- 1Bouilloire en métal à deux étages, l’étage inférieur contenant de l’eau chaude, l’étage supérieur contenant le thé qui infuse dans un peu d'eau, qui sert à faire le thé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how samovar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Assez loin d’elle, debout devant une table en véritable laque, une personne grassouillette surveillait le samovar de cuivre où chauffait l’eau qui allait servir à la confection du thé.
Sans se faire prier, le père Minaï, colosse à barbe d'ébène, ventripotent comme un samovar monstre où bout le sbitène de tout un marché transi de froid, grimpa sur le timonier qui faillit crouler sous son poids.
Synonyms
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); 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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