sommant
\sɔ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“sommant” is uncommon French (frequency #81,589 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,589
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de sommer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sommant · sommant · French
sommant · rank #81,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,589
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soufflées
Nearest frequency peer: soufflées (+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 « sommant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- snober
snober
18,416 corpus weight
- società
società
18,415 corpus weight
- Sohn
Sohn
18,414 corpus weight
- sommant
sommant
18,412 corpus weight
- soufflées
soufflées
18,411 corpus weight
- soumettait
soumettait
18,409 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sommant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sommant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sommant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sommant is uncommon French at frequency #81,589 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɔ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de sommer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sommant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sommant, spelled S-O-M-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent 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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