sampling
\sɑ̃.pliŋ\
The verdict
“sampling” is uncommon French (frequency #94,246 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,246
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utilisation de samples.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sampling · sampling · French
sampling · rank #94,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,246
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salmonelle
Nearest frequency peer: salmonelle (-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 « sampling »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- salières
salières
5,758 corpus weight
- salmonelle
salmonelle
5,757 corpus weight
- sampling
sampling
5,755 corpus weight
- sants
sants
5,753 corpus weight
- sapienza
sapienza
5,752 corpus weight
- satisferont
satisferont
5,751 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sampling » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sampling |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.pliŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sampling » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sampling is uncommon French at frequency #94,246 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.pliŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Utilisation de samples.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sampling in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sampling, spelled S-A-M-P-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Utilisation de samples.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sampling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour nombre de ses pratiquants, le sampling est une critique en actes de l’un des principes fondamentaux des sociétés contemporaines, celui de la propriété privée.
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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