semaine sainte

/\sə.mɛn sɛ̃t\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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semaine sainte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Semaine commençant le dimanche des Rameaux et se terminant le Samedi Saint, la veille de Pâques, chez les chrétiens. Pronounced \sə.mɛn sɛ̃t\.

Key facts for semaine sainte
PropertyValue
Headwordsemaine sainte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sə.mɛn sɛ̃t\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

semaine sainte is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for semaine sainte is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.mɛn sɛ̃t\. 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: "Semaine commençant le dimanche des Rameaux et se terminant le Samedi Saint, la veille de Pâques, chez les chrétiens.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Semaine commençant le dimanche des Rameaux et se terminant le Samedi Saint, la veille de Pâques, chez les chrétiens.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "semaine sainte"?
"semaine sainte" is spelled S-E-M-A-I-N-E- -S-A-I-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sə.mɛn sɛ̃t\.
What does "semaine sainte" mean?
As a noun, "semaine sainte" means: Semaine commençant le dimanche des Rameaux et se terminant le Samedi Saint, la veille de Pâques, chez les chrétiens.
How do you pronounce "semaine sainte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "semaine sainte" is \sə.mɛn sɛ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "semaine sainte" 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.