sommelier
[someˈljeɾ]
The verdict
“sommelier” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #88,333 among 34,953 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,333
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Encargado de la cava y de la selección y presentación de vinos en un restaurante.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sommelier · sommelier · Spanish
sommelier · rank #88,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,333
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 34,953
- PHOTO-FINISH somero
Nearest frequency peer: somero (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sommelier”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sobreviviera
sobreviviera
11,673 corpus weight
- sofocados
sofocados
11,672 corpus weight
- someras
someras
11,670 corpus weight
- somero
somero
11,669 corpus weight
- sommelier
sommelier
11,668 corpus weight
- sosos
sosos
11,666 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sommelier” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sommelier |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [someˈljeɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sommelier” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sommelier is uncommon Spanish at frequency #88,333 among 34,953 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [someˈljeɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Encargado de la cava y de la selección y presentación de vinos en un restaurante.".
sommelier has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is sommelier, spelled S-O-M-M-E-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Encargado de la cava y de la selección y presentación de vinos en un restaurante.
This word in other languages
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sommelier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.