semana

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for semana is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɨ.ˈmɐ.nɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #230 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "período de sete dias, com um dia de feriado de cunho religioso: sábado para os judeus, domingo para os cristãos e sexta-feira para os muçulmanos".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for semana, with forms such as "esmana", "seamna", and "semaan". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "sena", "semita", "semanal", and more, 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 Portuguese form is semana, spelled S-E-M-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.