somment
\sɔm\
The verdict
“somment” is uncommon French (frequency #75,243 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,243
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de sommer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-somment · somment · French
somment · rank #75,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,243
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soluté
Nearest frequency peer: soluté (-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 « somment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- solidificat…
solidification
24,761 corpus weight
- solliciteur
solliciteur
24,760 corpus weight
- soluté
soluté
24,759 corpus weight
- somment
somment
24,758 corpus weight
- sonnantes
sonnantes
24,757 corpus weight
- Soubeyran
Soubeyran
24,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « somment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | somment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « somment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
somment is uncommon French at frequency #75,243 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
somment has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is somment, spelled S-O-M-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de sommer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de sommer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how somment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais c'est toujours en vain qu'ils somment les Charitois de chasser leur garnison: leurs menaces armées n'ont pas plus d'effet que leurs menaces écrites : toutes leurs démarches viennent se briser contre une inébranlable résolution.
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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