fin de semana

/[ˈfĩn̪ d̪e seˈmana]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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fin de semana is aSpanishphrase. It means: Período semanal de descanso del régimen laboral y escolar, que consiste habitualmente en Occidente en el día sábado y el domingo de la semana que le sigue. Pronounced [ˈfĩn̪ d̪e seˈmana].

Key facts for fin de semana
PropertyValue
Headwordfin de semana
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈfĩn̪ d̪e seˈmana]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fin de semana is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for fin de semana is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfĩn̪ d̪e seˈmana]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Período semanal de descanso del régimen laboral y escolar, que consiste habitualmente en Occidente en el día sábado y el domingo de la semana que le sigue.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fin de semana in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is fin de semana, spelled F-I-N- -D-E- -S-E-M-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Período semanal de descanso del régimen laboral y escolar, que consiste habitualmente en Occidente en el día sábado y el domingo de la semana que le sigue.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fin de semana"?
"fin de semana" is spelled F-I-N- -D-E- -S-E-M-A-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈfĩn̪ d̪e seˈmana].
What does "fin de semana" mean?
As a phrase, "fin de semana" means: Período semanal de descanso del régimen laboral y escolar, que consiste habitualmente en Occidente en el día sábado y el domingo de la semana que le sigue.
How do you pronounce "fin de semana"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fin de semana" is [ˈfĩn̪ d̪e seˈmana]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fin de semana" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.