St. Martin's summer
"st-martin-s-summer" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“St. Martin'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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A period of warm weather in early November, around the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours on the 11th.
Corpus desk
Index EN-st-martin-s-summer · St. Martin's summer · English
St. Martin's summer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 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. Martin's summer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “St. Martin's summer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
St. Martin's summer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A period of warm weather in early November, around the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours on the 11th.".
No misspelling variants are generated for St. Martin's summer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is St. Martin's summer, spelled S-T-.- -M-A-R-T-I-N-'-S- -S-U-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1A period of warm weather in early November, around the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours on the 11th.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how St. Martin's summer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: St. Luke's summer, Indian summer
The results of tests with the Giesl ejector on a remarkably good general service locomotive like the "B.R.9" will be awaited with great interest, though so far as British Railways are concerned it would appear that the Giesl ejector has come upon the scene in what may be called the "St. Martin's Summer" of steam, and that its advantages may be utilised to…
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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.