Semana Santa

/[seˈmana ˈsãn̪t̪a]/ phrase

Letters

12 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

Semana Santa is aSpanishphrase. It means: En el catolicismo, semana que termina en el Domingo de Resurrección durante la que se conmemora la pasión y muerte de Jesucristo. Excepcionalmente se considera que el primer día de la Semana Santa ... Pronounced [seˈmana ˈsãn̪t̪a].

Key facts for Semana Santa
PropertyValue
HeadwordSemana Santa
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[seˈmana ˈsãn̪t̪a]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Semana Santa is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seˈmana ˈsãn̪t̪a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for Semana Santa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 Semana Santa, spelled S-E-M-A-N-A- -S-A-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En el catolicismo, semana que termina en el Domingo de Resurrección durante la que se conmemora la pasión y muerte de Jesucristo. Excepcionalmente se considera que el primer día de la Semana Santa es el Domingo de Ramos, con lo que la Semana Santa tendría ocho días en vez siete.
  2. 2
    Periodo de descanso vacacional académico y usualmente también laboral, que suele coincidir con la Semana Santa₁ cristiana.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Semana Santa"?
"Semana Santa" is spelled S-E-M-A-N-A- -S-A-N-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [seˈmana ˈsãn̪t̪a].
What does "Semana Santa" mean?
As a phrase, "Semana Santa" means: En el catolicismo, semana que termina en el Domingo de Resurrección durante la que se conmemora la pasión y muerte de Jesucristo. Excepcionalmente se considera que el primer día de la Semana Santa ...
How do you pronounce "Semana Santa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Semana Santa" is [seˈmana ˈsãn̪t̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Semana Santa" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.