summery
/ˈsʌməɹi/adjective
summery is an adjective meaning “Relating to the summer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-M-M-E-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does summery mean?
adjective
- 1
Relating to the summer.
She wore a light summery dress.
- 2
Of weather, typical of summer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce summery?
- /ˈsʌməɹi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-summary.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of summery
- summerier comparative
- summeriest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is summery?
Summery appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,738th 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 summery
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: summary (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Summery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to the summer:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | d'été, estival |
| German | sommerlich, Sommer- |
| Portuguese | estival |
| Spanish | veraniego |
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 summery come from?
From Middle English somery; equivalent to summer + -y. Compare Swedish somrig (“summery”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).