sommet
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,890
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
sommet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie la plus élevée de quelque chose. Pronounced \sɔ.mɛ\. It ranks #1,890 in French word frequency. Often confused with summer and soumet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sommet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sommet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.mɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,890 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sommet, with forms such as "osmmet", "smomet", and "somemt". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "summer", "soumet", "sonnet", 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 sommet, spelled S-O-M-M-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie la plus élevée de quelque chose.
- 2Degré le plus haut.
- 3En géométrie, point commun aux deux côtés d’un angle.
- 4Rassemblement de dirigeants, pour discuter de certains sujets.
- 5Point d’un graphe.
- 6Section unitaire d’un jeu de barres, qui ne peut être divisée par un appareillage.
- 7Dans un arbre binaire, chacun des points d’où part zéro, une ou deux arêtes. Syn. : nœud.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osmmet,smomet,somemt,somet,sommett,sommte,ssommet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sommet
Misspelling Variants of "sommet"
Frequency rank: #1,890 in French
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