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shmita

noun

shmita is spelled S-H-M-I-T-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shmita means “A sabbatical year” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shmita is shmitas.

How many letters and syllables are in shmita?

Letters6: S-H-M-I-T-A
In writingabout once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is shmita?

Shmita appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).

Forms of shmita

  • shmitas plural
  • shemittah
  • shmitah
  • shmittah

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

What does shmita mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A sabbatical year.

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

Where does shmita come from?

From Hebrew שְׁמִיטָה.

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

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