sumérien
\sy.me.ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“sumérien” is uncommon French (frequency #84,343 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,343
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue morte autrefois parlée à Sumer, un isolat linguistique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sumerien · sumérien · French
sumérien · rank #84,343 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,343
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH succombera
Nearest frequency peer: succombera (-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 « sumérien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- subduction
subduction
15,661 corpus weight
- successful
successful
15,660 corpus weight
- succombera
succombera
15,659 corpus weight
- sumérien
sumérien
15,658 corpus weight
- superpouvoi…
superpouvoirs
15,656 corpus weight
- suprémaciste
suprémaciste
15,655 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sumérien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sumérien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.me.ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sumérien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sumérien is uncommon French at frequency #84,343 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sy.me.ʁjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue morte autrefois parlée à Sumer, un isolat linguistique.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sumérien, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sumérien, spelled S-U-M-É-R-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Langue morte autrefois parlée à Sumer, un isolat linguistique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sumérien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sumérien étant majoritairement monosyllabique, il en aurait résulté des homophones nombreux (des mots différents se prononçant de la même façon, comme en français vers, verre, vert, ver) si la langue n’avait pas utilisé un autre moyen de distinguer entre les différents sens de ces « homophones ».
Le sumérien comptait en base 60 (il nous en reste une trace, notre manière de compter les secondes et les minutes) ….
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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