Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

summery

/ˈsʌməɹi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

Syllables: sum-mery
IPA: /ˈsʌməɹi/

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to the summer.

adj

Of weather, typical of summer.

noun

Misspelling of summary.

Example Sentences

"She wore a light summery dress."
"We are reasonably certain that every reader will understand the danger and downright immorality of using quotation marks in a careless or flippant manner, that only a person’s actual words may be placed in quotation marks, and that a summery or paraphrase must be so labeled or identified."
"With Swift, Spice, Lively and Avignone hugging each other, it was a picture-perfect visual summery of Swift’s brand: manufactured empowerment, a celebration of pop feminist girl power."

Etymology

From Middle English somery; equivalent to summer + -y. Compare Swedish somrig (“summery”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: somery
Suffix: summer

Inflected Forms

summerier (comparative) summeriest (superlative)

Derived Forms

summerily summeriness unsummery

Synonyms

aestival estival summer summerish summerlike summerly

Homonyms

summary

Questions

How do you pronounce summery?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsʌməɹi/.
What does summery mean?: Relating to the summer.
Where does summery come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce summery

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