semi-voyelle
\sə.mi.vwa.jɛl\
The verdict
“semi-voyelle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Glide. Son phonétiquement intermédiaire entre les voyelles et les consonnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semi-voyelle · semi-voyelle · French
semi-voyelle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semi-voyelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.mi.vwa.jɛl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
semi-voyelle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sə.mi.vwa.jɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
semi-voyelle has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is semi-voyelle, spelled S-E-M-I---V-O-Y-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Glide. Son phonétiquement intermédiaire entre les voyelles et les consonnes.
- 2Glide phonologiquement vocalique. Voyelle non syllabique, formant une diphtongue avec une voyelle syllabique, avec un comportement plus proche de celui d’une consonne que de celui d’une voyelle.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.