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summertime

noun

summertime is a noun meaning “The period or season of summer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-M-M-E-R-T-I-M-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears 1.8 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of summertime is summertimes.

What does summertime mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The period or season of summer.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce summertime?

    Summertime has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of summertime

    • summertimes plural
    • summer-time

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is summertime?

    Summertime appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Words people confuse with summertime

    Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

    summer time vs summertime0 B

    Also written: summer-time (one word or two).

    Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    Summertime in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense the period or season of summer:

    LanguageWords
    Frenchété
    GermanSommerzeit, Sommer
    Spanishverano, estío

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

    Where does summertime come from?

    From Middle English somertime, equivalent to summer + time. Compare Dutch zomertijd (“summertime”), German Sommerzeit (“summertime”), Danish sommertiden (“summertime”), Swedish sommartid (“summertime”). Compare summertide.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).