semestre
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,045
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
semestre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Porción de tiempo que dura seis meses, lo que equivale a la mitad de un año. En cada año calendario hay dos semestres, nos podemos referir a ellos como primer semestre, que va desde el 1 de enero h... Pronounced [seˈmest̪ɾe]. It ranks #5,045 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with semestres and semestral.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semestre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seˈmest̪ɾe] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for semestre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seˈmest̪ɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,045 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for semestre, with forms such as "cemestre", "esmestre", and "seemstre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "semestres", "semestral", 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 semestre, spelled S-E-M-E-S-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Porción de tiempo que dura seis meses, lo que equivale a la mitad de un año. En cada año calendario hay dos semestres, nos podemos referir a ellos como primer semestre, que va desde el 1 de enero hasta el 30 de junio, y segundo semestre, que va desde el 1 de julio hasta el 31 de diciembre.
- 2Renta, sueldo, pensión, etcétera, que se cobra o se paga al fin de cada semestre.
- 3Conjunto de los números de un periódico o revista publicados durante un semestre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cemestre,esmestre,seemstre,semesrte,semesstre,semester,semestrre,semesttre,semetsre,semmestre,semsetre,smeestre,ssemestre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for semestre
Misspelling Variants of "semestre"
Frequency rank: #5,045 in Spanish
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