summertime
\ˈsʌm.ɚ.ˌtaɪm\
The verdict
“summertime” is uncommon French (frequency #77,964 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,964
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Période de l’été.
Corpus desk
Index FR-summertime · summertime · French
summertime · rank #77,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,964
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH superlatif
Nearest frequency peer: superlatif (+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 « summertime »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stéroïde
stéroïde
22,042 corpus weight
- suaves
suaves
22,041 corpus weight
- subsistaient
subsistaient
22,040 corpus weight
- summertime
summertime
22,037 corpus weight
- superlatif
superlatif
22,036 corpus weight
- surpassée
surpassée
22,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « summertime » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | summertime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsʌm.ɚ.ˌtaɪm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « summertime » en français
Rare enough to double-check
summertime is uncommon French at frequency #77,964 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈsʌm.ɚ.ˌtaɪm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Période de l’été.".
summertime doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is summertime, spelled S-U-M-M-E-R-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Période de l’été.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how summertime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I was told that this road is in summertime excellent, but that it had not yet been put in order after the winter snows.
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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