summoner
"summoner" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“summoner” is uncommon English (frequency #68,671 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,671
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.
Corpus desk
Index EN-summoner · summoner · English
summoner · rank #68,671 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,671
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sugden
Nearest frequency peer: Sugden (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “summoner”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- subtotal
subtotal
31,333 corpus weight
- sugared
sugared
31,332 corpus weight
- Sugden
Sugden
31,331 corpus weight
- summoner
summoner
31,330 corpus weight
- suntan
suntan
31,328 corpus weight
- superyacht
superyacht
31,327 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “summoner” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | summoner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “summoner” in English
Rare enough to double-check
summoner is uncommon English at frequency #68,671 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for summoner in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From summon + -er. The correct English form is summoner, spelled S-U-M-M-O-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.
- 2An apparitor; an officer of an ecclesiastical court whose job it was to deliver a summons to an offending member of the diocese.
- 3A small bell for summoning an employee to provide service.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how summoner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness.
Etymology
From summon + -er.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).