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sem

/sɛm/noun

sem is spelled S-E-M: 3 letters. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sem means “Clipping of seminary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sem is sems.

How many letters and syllables are in sem?

Letters3: S-E-M
In writing1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is sem?

Sem appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce sem?

  • /sɛm/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sem.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with sem?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sem.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ems, mes.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of sem

  • sems plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sem mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Clipping of seminary.

  2. 2

    Clipping of semester.

  3. 3

    Clipping of semicolon

adjective

as Sem
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of Semitic.

noun

as SEM
  1. 1

    Initialism of scanning electron microscope.

  2. 2

    Initialism of scanning electron microscopy.

  3. 3

    Initialism of secondary electron multiplier.

  4. 4

    Initialism of search engine marketing.

  5. 5

    Initialism of standard error of the mean.

  6. 6

    Initialism of security event management.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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