sommations
\sɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“sommations” is uncommon French (frequency #52,354 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,354
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sommation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sommations · sommations · French
sommations · rank #52,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,354
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sonnée
Nearest frequency peer: sonnée (+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 « sommations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- solidaireme…
solidairement
47,650 corpus weight
- solutionner
solutionner
47,649 corpus weight
- sommations
sommations
47,647 corpus weight
- sonnée
sonnée
47,646 corpus weight
- Sonya
Sonya
47,645 corpus weight
- Soubise
Soubise
47,644 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sommations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sommations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sommations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sommations is uncommon French at frequency #52,354 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sommation.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sommations in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sommations, spelled S-O-M-M-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sommation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sommations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je glissai dans un tiroir le rebut paperassier : sommations du percepteur, tracts politiques et publicitaires, tickets de photo-stoppeurs.
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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