St. Luke's summer
"st-luke-s-summer" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“St. Luke's summer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).
Corpus desk
Index EN-st-luke-s-summer · St. Luke's summer · English
St. Luke's summer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | St. Luke's summer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “St. Luke's summer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
St. Luke's summer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).".
St. Luke's summer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 English form is St. Luke's summer, spelled S-T-.- -L-U-K-E-'-S- -S-U-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1A short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how St. Luke's summer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
to me there was something infinitely pathetic and appealing in the idea of the egg having a sort of St. Luke's summer of commercial usefulness.
Almost every virtue of every season is contracted into the little span of St. Luke's summer, the very vintage of the year's juices.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.