summary
The verdict
“summary” is uncommon French (frequency #61,921 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,921
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sommaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-summary · summary · French
summary · rank #61,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,921
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suffocation
Nearest frequency peer: suffocation (-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 « summary »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- succombent
succombent
38,083 corpus weight
- sudation
sudation
38,082 corpus weight
- suffocation
suffocation
38,081 corpus weight
- summary
summary
38,080 corpus weight
- supporterai
supporterai
38,079 corpus weight
- suranné
suranné
38,078 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « summary » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | summary |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « summary » en français
Rare enough to double-check
summary is uncommon French at frequency #61,921 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sommaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for summary in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is summary, spelled S-U-M-M-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Sommaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how summary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
summary execution, summary judgment
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).