summit
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "summit", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "summit" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "summit" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
summit is aEnglishnoun. It means: The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak. Pronounced /ˈsʌmɪt/. It ranks #4,337 in English word frequency. Often confused with summon and suit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | summit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌmɪt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for summit is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsʌmɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,337 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for summit, with forms such as "smumit", "ssummit", and "sumimt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "summon", "suit", "summa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *upó The noun is derived from Late Middle English somet, somete (“head, top”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman sumet and Middle French sommet (masculine), somete, sommette (“top of a thing; highest point of a mountain”) (feminine) (modern Fren… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is summit, spelled S-U-M-M-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
- 2The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
- 3The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
- 4The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
- 5The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak.
- 6The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
- 7The highest level of political leadership.
- 8An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
Etymology
PIE word *upó The noun is derived from Late Middle English somet, somete (“head, top”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman sumet and Middle French sommet (masculine), somete, sommette (“top of a thing; highest point of a mountain”) (feminine) (modern French sommet), from Old French somet, sommette, from som, sum (“highest point, summit”) + -et (suffix forming diminutive masculine nouns), -ete, -ette (suffix forming diminutive feminine nouns). Som, sum are derived from Latin summum (“top, summit”), a noun use of the neuter of summus (“greatest, highest; top, uppermost”, adjective) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over”) + *-m̥mos, *-tm̥mos (“suffix forming superlative adjectives”)). The modern English spelling was influenced by summity (“height or top of a thing; utmost degree, perfection”) (obsolete). The verb is derived from the noun.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: smumit,ssummit,sumimt,sumit,summitt,summti,usmmit
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for summit
Misspelling Variants of "summit"
Frequency rank: #4,337 in English
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