summum
\sɔ.mɔm\
The verdict
“summum” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,404. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,404
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le plus haut point, acmé, apogée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-summum · summum · French
summum · rank #24,404 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,404
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH subjectivité
Nearest frequency peer: subjectivité (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « summum »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- structurée
structurée
75,600 corpus weight
- subite
subite
75,599 corpus weight
- subjectivité
subjectivité
75,598 corpus weight
- summum
summum
75,597 corpus weight
- suppressions
suppressions
75,596 corpus weight
- surmontée
surmontée
75,595 corpus weight
What this shows « summum » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | summum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.mɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « summum »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around summum (IPA \sɔ.mɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,404 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Le plus haut point, acmé, apogée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for summum, with forms such as "smumum", "ssummum", and "summmu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "summer", "summit", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is summum, spelled S-U-M-M-U-M.
Definition
- 1Le plus haut point, acmé, apogée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how summum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutes les œuvres du génie sont le summum d’une civilisation, et présupposent une immense utilité.
Nul doute que nous refuserions de vivre dans les conditions où vivaient nos grands-pères, il y a seulement cinquante ans, et à plus forte raison, trouverions-nous complètement insuffisant ce que le grand roi et sa Cour considéraient comme le summum du bien-être au temps où Mme de Sévigné et La Bruyère parlaient des bêtes noires et puantes que l’on rencont…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smumum
- ssummum
- summmu
- summumm
- sumum
- sumumm
- usmmum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of summum - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).