somma
\sɔ.ma\
The verdict
“somma” is uncommon French (frequency #95,345 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,345
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de sommer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-somma · somma · French
somma · rank #95,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,345
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sombrait
Nearest frequency peer: sombrait (-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 « somma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sochi
Sochi
4,660 corpus weight
- solidarity
solidarity
4,659 corpus weight
- sombrait
sombrait
4,657 corpus weight
- somma
somma
4,656 corpus weight
- sore
sore
4,654 corpus weight
- soufie
soufie
4,653 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « somma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | somma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔ.ma\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « somma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
somma is uncommon French at frequency #95,345 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɔ.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de sommer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for somma, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is somma, spelled S-O-M-M-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de sommer.
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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