sommité
\sɔ.mi.te\
The verdict
“sommité” is uncommon French (frequency #67,121 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,121
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie la plus élevée de certaines choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sommite · sommité · French
sommité · rank #67,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,121
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sommiers
Nearest frequency peer: sommiers (-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 « sommité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Socrates
Socrates
32,883 corpus weight
- somatiques
somatiques
32,882 corpus weight
- sommiers
sommiers
32,881 corpus weight
- sommité
sommité
32,880 corpus weight
- sonora
sonora
32,879 corpus weight
- soucié
soucié
32,877 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sommité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sommité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sommité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sommité is uncommon French at frequency #67,121 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.mi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for sommité in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sommité, spelled S-O-M-M-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Partie la plus élevée de certaines choses.
- 2Extrémité de la tige fleurie de certaines plantes dont les fleurs sont trop petites pour être conservées isolément.
- 3Personne qui s'est élevée au sommet des dignités, de l’art ou des sciences.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sommité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Girafe dans son pays natal, broute la sommité des arbres, préférant les plantes de la famille des mimosa qui y abondent : […].
Puis enfin vient la sommité la plus élevée du Mont-Blanc, haute selon André de Gy, de quatorze mille huit cent quatre-vingt-douze, selon Tralles, de quatorze mille sept cent quatre-vingt-treize, et selon Saussure, de quatorze mille six cent soixante-seize pieds, […].
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).