sumir
[suˈmiɾ]
The verdict
“sumir” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,489 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,489
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hundir o meter debajo de la tierra o del agua.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sumir · sumir · Spanish
sumir · rank #92,489 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,489
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sunna
Nearest frequency peer: sunna (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “sumir”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- subrayados
subrayados
7,517 corpus weight
- sudaca
sudaca
7,516 corpus weight
- suframos
suframos
7,515 corpus weight
- sumir
sumir
7,512 corpus weight
- sunna
sunna
7,511 corpus weight
- suntuosas
suntuosas
7,510 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sumir” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sumir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [suˈmiɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sumir” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sumir is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,489 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [suˈmiɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sumir, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is sumir, spelled S-U-M-I-R.
Definition
- 1Hundir o meter debajo de la tierra o del agua.
- 2Sumergir; hundir en un abismo.
- 3Recibir un comulgante, o tomar el sacerdote, durante la misa, la porción del pan y del vino consagrados.
Synonyms
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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