sampler
\sɑ̃.plœʁ\
The verdict
“sampler” is uncommon French (frequency #77,910 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,910
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de musique électronique capable d’enregistrer des sons (échantillons) et de les rejouer à la hauteur voulue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sampler · sampler · French
sampler · rank #77,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,910
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sano
Nearest frequency peer: sano (+2 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 « sampler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sacrificiel…
sacrificielle
22,096 corpus weight
- Sadler
Sadler
22,095 corpus weight
- sahraouis
sahraouis
22,094 corpus weight
- sampler
sampler
22,091 corpus weight
- sano
sano
22,089 corpus weight
- sassenage
sassenage
22,087 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sampler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sampler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.plœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sampler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sampler is uncommon French at frequency #77,910 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.plœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument de musique électronique capable d’enregistrer des sons (échantillons) et de les rejouer à la hauteur voulue.".
sampler doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sampler, spelled S-A-M-P-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Instrument de musique électronique capable d’enregistrer des sons (échantillons) et de les rejouer à la hauteur voulue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sampler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le travail du sampler était assez rapide pour permettre une synchronisation parfaite entre les sons et les mouvements des lèvres.
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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