semejanza
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,452
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
semejanza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rasgo, característica o conjunto de características en común, iguales o comparables. Condición de ser semejante, parecido o similar. Pronounced [semeˈxãnsa]. Often confused with semejanzas and semejante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semejanza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [semeˈxãnsa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for semejanza is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [semeˈxãnsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,452 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for semejanza, with forms such as "cemejanza", "esmejanza", and "seemjanza". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "semejanzas", "semejante", "semblanza", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 semejanza, spelled S-E-M-E-J-A-N-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rasgo, característica o conjunto de características en común, iguales o comparables. Condición de ser semejante, parecido o similar.
- 2Recurso literario o retórico que consiste en comparar algo con otra cosa para producir cierto efecto estético o determinado impacto en quien lee o escucha.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cemejanza,esmejanza,seemjanza,semeajnza,semejanaz,semejannza,semejanzza,semejazna,semejjanza,semejnaza,semjeanza,semmejanza,smeejanza,ssemejanza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for semejanza
Misspelling Variants of "semejanza"
Frequency rank: #16,452 in Spanish
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