# Sommer

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #41,384

## Definitions
1. A surname from German.

## Etymology
* As a German, Jewish, Danish, and Norwegian surname, from the noun sommer (“summer”).
* Also as a German surname, from Middle Low German somere (“pack animal”), probably derived from Latin sagma (“pack saddle”).
* As an English, Scottish, and German surname, variant of Summer.

## Easily confused with
- **summer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sommer-vs-summer)
- **sooner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sommer-vs-sooner)
- **Sumner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sommer-vs-sumner)
- **Sumter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sommer-vs-sumter)
- **Summers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sommer-vs-summers)
- **swimmer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sommer-vs-swimmer)
- **some** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/some-vs-sommer)
- **sober** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sober-vs-sommer)
- **Somme** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/somme-vs-sommer)
- **soccer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/soccer-vs-sommer)
- **simmer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/simmer-vs-sommer)
- **solder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/solder-vs-sommer)
- **somber** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/somber-vs-sommer)
- **solver** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/solver-vs-sommer)
- **Soames** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/soames-vs-sommer)
- **Sameer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sameer-vs-sommer)
- **shimmer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shimmer-vs-sommer)
- **scammer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scammer-vs-sommer)
- **slimmer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slimmer-vs-sommer)

## Common misspellings (7)
`osmmer`, `smomer`, `somemr`, `somer`, `sommerr`, `sommre`, `ssommer`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sommer