somme toute
\sɔm tut\
The verdict
“somme toute” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfin, en résumé, pour conclusion, tout compte fait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-somme-toute · somme toute · French
somme toute · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | somme toute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sɔm tut\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
somme toute is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sɔm tut\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enfin, en résumé, pour conclusion, tout compte fait.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for somme toute in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is somme toute, spelled S-O-M-M-E- -T-O-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Enfin, en résumé, pour conclusion, tout compte fait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how somme toute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, somme toute, les dirigeables n’étaient pas mieux fournis, en fait de cuirassement et d’armement, que la plus petite canonnière.
Le curé de Melotte […] n’était plus craint. Ses foudres de carton, ses tonnerres lointains, l’évocation des bûchers infernaux, la promesse des félicités paradisiaques dans un éden, somme toute, passablement morne et fort problématique, ne faisaient plus guère frémir que quelques vieilles dévotes et les gosses de neuf à onze ans […].
This word in other languages
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