semestriel
\sə.mɛs.tʁi.jɛl\
The verdict
“semestriel” is uncommon French (frequency #55,591 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,591
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se produit deux fois par an, tous les six mois, une fois par semestre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semestriel · semestriel · French
semestriel · rank #55,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,591
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH segal
Nearest frequency peer: segal (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « semestriel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- scythes
scythes
44,413 corpus weight
- secoués
secoués
44,412 corpus weight
- segal
segal
44,411 corpus weight
- semestriel
semestriel
44,410 corpus weight
- sentimental…
sentimentalisme
44,409 corpus weight
- septiques
septiques
44,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « semestriel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semestriel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sə.mɛs.tʁi.jɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « semestriel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
semestriel is uncommon French at frequency #55,591 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sə.mɛs.tʁi.jɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui se produit deux fois par an, tous les six mois, une fois par semestre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for semestriel in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is semestriel, spelled S-E-M-E-S-T-R-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui se produit deux fois par an, tous les six mois, une fois par semestre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how semestriel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vrai plaisir d’Armandine tenait tout entier dans la visite semestrielle qu’elle rendait à Me Julien Retourbey, notaire à Bourg-Argental.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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