summa
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The verdict
“summa” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #29,355 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #29,355
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum des Adjektivs summus
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | summa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “summa” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for summa is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,355 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for summa, with forms such as "smuma", "ssumma", and "suma". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Summe", "Sumpf", "summen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is summa, spelled S-U-M-M-A.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Femininum des Adjektivs summus
- 2Vokativ Singular Femininum des Adjektivs summus
- 3(summā) Ablativ Singular Femininum des Adjektivs summus
- 4Nominativ Plural Neutrum des Adjektivs summus
- 5Akkusativ Plural Neutrum des Adjektivs summus
- 6Vokativ Plural Neutrum des Adjektivs summus
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: smuma,ssumma,suma,sumam,usmma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of summa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “summa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-U-M-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Summe” - see the side-by-side comparison. summa vs Summe
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.