sommets

/\sɔ.mɛ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,461

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

sommets is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de sommet. Pronounced \sɔ.mɛ\. It ranks #8,461 in French word frequency. Often confused with soumet and soviets.

Key facts for sommets
PropertyValue
Headwordsommets
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔ.mɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,461
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sommets in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sommets is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.mɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,461 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de sommet.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for sommets, with forms such as "osmmets", "smomets", and "somemts". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "soumet", "soviets", "soumets", 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 sommets, spelled S-O-M-M-E-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de sommet.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: osmmets,smomets,somemts,somets,sommest,sommetss,sommetts,sommtes,ssommets

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sommets

Misspelling Variants of "sommets"

osmmets7smomets7somemts7somets6sommest7sommetss8sommetts8sommtes7
Misspelling Variants of "sommets"

Frequency rank: #8,461 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sommets"?
"sommets" is spelled S-O-M-M-E-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.mɛ\.
What does "sommets" mean?
As a noun, "sommets" means: Pluriel de sommet.
What words are commonly confused with "sommets"?
"sommets" is commonly confused with "soumet", "soviets", "soumets". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sommets"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sommets" is \sɔ.mɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sommets" come from?
"sommets" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.