sémen
/ˈsɛ.mɛn/
The verdict
“sémen” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,793 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,793
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - líquido fecundante segregado pelos órgãos reprodutores dos animais masculinos
Corpus desk
Index PT-semen · sémen · Portuguese
sémen · rank #67,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,793
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH termonuclear
Nearest frequency peer: termonuclear (+11 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “sémen”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- siamês
siamês
32,233 corpus weight
- sink
sink
32,229 corpus weight
- sémen
sémen
32,208 corpus weight
- termonuclear
termonuclear
32,197 corpus weight
- Tessália
Tessália
32,196 corpus weight
- tonel
tonel
32,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sémen” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sémen |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛ.mɛn/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sémen” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sémen is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,793 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsɛ.mɛn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sémen in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. 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. The correct Portuguese form is sémen, spelled S-É-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1líquido fecundante segregado pelos órgãos reprodutores dos animais masculinos
- 2esperma
- 3semente
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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