semen
/ˈsiːmən/noun
semen is spelled S-E-M-E-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.4 times per million words in written English, the 17,587th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Semen, the name). As a noun, semen means “A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of semen is semens.
How many letters and syllables are in semen?
| Letters | 5: S-E-M-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.4 times per million words; the 17,587th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 semen?
Semen appears 2.4 times per million words in written English, the 17,587th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Semen, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce semen?
- /ˈsiːmən/
Semen has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-semen.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with semen
Sounds like: seaman (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with semen?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as semen.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: mense, mesne, mesen.
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 semen
- semens plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does semen mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Semen in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense male reproductive fluid:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does semen come from?
From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).