sommeil
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,799
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
sommeil is aFrenchnoun. It means: État inconscient, souvent accompagné de rêves, dans lequel doivent obligatoirement se plonger les hommes et les animaux périodiquement pour des raisons psychologiques et physiologiques. Pronounced \sɔ.mɛj\. It ranks #2,799 in French word frequency. Often confused with sommes and sommet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sommeil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.mɛj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sommeil is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.mɛj\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,799 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for sommeil, with forms such as "osmmeil", "smomeil", and "someil". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sommes", "sommet", "Sommer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sommeil, spelled S-O-M-M-E-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État inconscient, souvent accompagné de rêves, dans lequel doivent obligatoirement se plonger les hommes et les animaux périodiquement pour des raisons psychologiques et physiologiques.
- 2Grande envie, un grand besoin de dormir.
- 3Mort.
- 4État d’inactivité, d’inertie où se trouvent certaines choses.
- 5État dans lequel les plantes ont leurs feuilles et leurs fleurs pliées ou fermées, ordinairement durant la nuit, et qui est dû à l’absence de la chaleur et de la lumière.
- 6Sorte d’engourdissement qui saisit certains animaux pendant l’hiver ; ou qui, dans les pays chauds, saisit d’autres animaux durant la saison sèche.
- 7Phase d’inactivité d’un appareil, d’une machine.
- 8Période durant laquelle on dort.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osmmeil,smomeil,someil,somemil,sommeill,sommeli,sommiel,ssommeil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "sommeil"
Frequency rank: #2,799 in French
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