semipermanent
adjective
semipermanent is an adjective meaning “Neither temporary nor entirely permanent; of indefinite duration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-M-I-P-E-R-M-A-N-E-N-T and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does semipermanent mean?
adjective
- 1
Neither temporary nor entirely permanent; of indefinite duration.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce semipermanent?
Semipermanent has 5 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).
Forms of semipermanent
- more semipermanent comparative
- most semipermanent superlative
- semi-permanent
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is semipermanent?
Semipermanent appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
Where does semipermanent come from?
From semi- + permanent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).