samus
\sa.my\
The verdict
“samus” is uncommon French (frequency #81,542 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,542
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de samu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-samus · samus · French
samus · rank #81,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,542
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sangloter
Nearest frequency peer: sangloter (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “samus”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- rêche
rêche
18,462 corpus weight
- samarra
samarra
18,461 corpus weight
- samus
samus
18,459 corpus weight
- sangloter
sangloter
18,458 corpus weight
- saoulent
saoulent
18,457 corpus weight
- Sarmates
Sarmates
18,455 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “samus” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | samus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.my\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “samus” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
samus is uncommon French at frequency #81,542 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.my\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de samu.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for samus, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is samus, spelled S-A-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de samu.
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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