sommités
\sɔ.mi.te\
The verdict
“sommités” is uncommon French (frequency #63,366 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,366
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sommité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sommites · sommités · French
sommités · rank #63,366 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,366
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH solvables
Nearest frequency peer: solvables (-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 « sommités »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soigneurs
soigneurs
36,638 corpus weight
- soixantième
soixantième
36,637 corpus weight
- solvables
solvables
36,636 corpus weight
- sommités
sommités
36,635 corpus weight
- sommée
sommée
36,634 corpus weight
- sonata
sonata
36,633 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sommités » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sommités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sommités » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sommités is uncommon French at frequency #63,366 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.mi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sommité.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sommités in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sommités, spelled S-O-M-M-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sommité.
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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