summer
/ˈsʌmə/
"summer" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“summer” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #599. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #599
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning eithe...
Corpus desk
Index EN-summer · summer · English
summer · rank #599 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #599
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH space
Nearest frequency peer: space (-1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “summer”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- running
running
99,405 corpus weight
- shows
shows
99,404 corpus weight
- space
space
99,403 corpus weight
- summer
summer
99,402 corpus weight
- term
term
99,401 corpus weight
- wife
wife
99,400 corpus weight
What this shows “summer” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | summer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌmə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “summer”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around summer (IPA /ˈsʌmə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #599 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for summer, with forms such as "smumer", "ssummer", and "sumemr". 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, "super", "summit", "supper", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor (“summer”), from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz (“summer”), from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó-, oblique of *semh₂- (“summer, year”). Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer (… The correct English form is summer, spelled S-U-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning either the period between the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, or the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
- 2year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.
- 3Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.
- 4Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how summer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the heat of summer
Gradually, the end of summer hove into sight.
Etymology
From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor (“summer”), from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz (“summer”), from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó-, oblique of *semh₂- (“summer, year”). Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer (“summer”), West Frisian simmer (“summer”), Saterland Frisian Suumer (“summer”), Dutch zomer (“summer”), Low German Sommer (“summer”), German Sommer (“summer”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer (“summer”), Swedish sommar (“summer”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar (“summer”), Welsh haf (“summer”), Armenian ամ (am, “year”), ամառ (amaṙ, “summer”), Sanskrit समा (sámā, “a half-year, season, weather, year”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬨 (ham-, “summer”), Middle Persian ḥʾmyn (hāmīn, “summer”), Northern Kurdish havîn (“summer”), Central Kurdish ھاوین (hawîn, “summer”).
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smumer
- ssummer
- sumemr
- sumer
- summerr
- summre
- usmmer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of summer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Same letter count
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