somme

Other forms of somme

plural

sommes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about somme

What does somme mean?

somme means "battle of World War II (1944)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in somme?

somme has 1 syllable: somme. In IPA it is /ˈsɔm/.

What is another word for somme?

Close synonyms include Somme River, Battle of the Somme, Somme River, Battle of the Somme. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is somme a common word?

somme is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.