sumir
[suˈmiɾ]
The verdict
“sumir” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #92,489 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #92,489
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hundir o meter debajo de la tierra o del agua.
| 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) |
Where “sumir” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sumir is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [suˈmiɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #92,489 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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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Using “sumir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-U-M-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [suˈmiɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.