Somers
\sɔ.məʁs\
The verdict
“Somers” is uncommon French (frequency #87,171 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,171
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-somers · Somers · French
Somers · rank #87,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,171
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sommeils
Nearest frequency peer: sommeils (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Somers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- socks
socks
12,833 corpus weight
- soluce
soluce
12,832 corpus weight
- Somers
Somers
12,830 corpus weight
- sommeils
sommeils
12,829 corpus weight
- soso
soso
12,828 corpus weight
- soudoyé
soudoyé
12,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Somers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Somers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.məʁs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Somers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Somers is uncommon French at frequency #87,171 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sɔ.məʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Somers, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Somers, spelled S-O-M-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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