sommet

\sɔ.mɛ\

/\sɔ.mɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“sommet” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,890
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie la plus élevée de quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sommet · sommet · French

sommet · rank #1,890 · 7 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,890
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH secours

Nearest frequency peer: secours (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sommet »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sommet » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sommet vs summer
67% similar
sommet vs soumet
83% similar
sommet vs sonnet
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sommet
PropertyValue
Headwordsommet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔ.mɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,890
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sommet »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sommetse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « secours » (#1,889), « systèmes » (#1,891), « publication » (#1,888). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sommet » est au #1,890. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around sommet (IPA \sɔ.mɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,890 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sommet, with forms such as "osmmet", "smomet", and "somemt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "summer", "soumet", "sonnet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sommet, spelled S-O-M-M-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie la plus élevée de quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Degré le plus haut.
  3. 3
    En géométrie, point commun aux deux côtés d’un angle.
  4. 4
    Rassemblement de dirigeants, pour discuter de certains sujets.
  5. 5
    Point d’un graphe.
  6. 6
    Section unitaire d’un jeu de barres, qui ne peut être divisée par un appareillage.
  7. 7
    Dans un arbre binaire, chacun des points d’où part zéro, une ou deux arêtes. Syn. : nœud.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sommet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Celui qui, au sommet de l’Etna promène à loisir ses yeux autour de lui, est principalement affecté par l’étendue et par la diversité du tableau.
  2. …la nuit n'était troublée que par les brusques paraboles des fusées éclairantes qui montaient aux deux côté du marécage et, parvenues au sommet de leur courbe, ouvraient leurs cône blancs et s'épanchaient doucement comme des lys renversés.

Synonyms

cimecrêtefaîteacméapogéesummumzénith

This word in other languages

summit(English)cumbre(Español)Gipfel(Deutsch)ápice(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osmmet
  • smomet
  • somemt
  • somet
  • sommett
  • sommte
  • ssommet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sommet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

osmmet2smomet2somemt2somet1sommett1sommte2ssommet1
Edit distance from "sommet"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sommet"?
"sommet" is spelled S-O-M-M-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.mɛ\.
What does "sommet" mean?
As a noun, "sommet" means: Partie la plus élevée de quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "sommet"?
"sommet" is commonly confused with "summer", "soumet", "sonnet". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sommet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sommet" is \sɔ.mɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sommet" come from?
"sommet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sommet", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

acteur#1,896ajoute#1,897pointe#1,883phrase#1,882

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

chute7 variantscrime7 variantscroix7 variantsfiche7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list