summ
"summ" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“summ” is uncommon English (frequency #80,016 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,016
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of sum.
Corpus desk
Index EN-summ · summ · English
summ · rank #80,016 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,016
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sudetenland
Nearest frequency peer: Sudetenland (-2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “summ”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- succor
succor
19,988 corpus weight
- Sudetenland
Sudetenland
19,987 corpus weight
- summ
summ
19,985 corpus weight
- sundries
sundries
19,983 corpus weight
- supernumera…
supernumerary
19,982 corpus weight
- supersize
supersize
19,981 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “summ” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | summ |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “summ” in English
Rare enough to double-check
summ is uncommon English at frequency #80,016 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of sum.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for summ, 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is summ, spelled S-U-M-M.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of sum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how summ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For the Minister of Justice who have hitherto lived in India, through their obscure and damnable blindness, were not much sollicitous about the punishment of the Crimes and Butcheries which have been and are still committed by these Tyrants, only they may say possibly because such a one, and such a one hath wickedly and barbarously dealt with the Indians,…
Some are acute for the Lob; which is, going into a Shop to have a Guinea or Pistole chang'd, and the Change being given, the bringer of the Gold telling it over, Palms Two or Three Shillings, then returning the Money, says there wants so much, which the Shop-keeper telling over again, and finding short, very innocently crys 'tis true, and makes up the Summ.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "summ"?
What does "summ" mean?
What language does "summ" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "summ", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).