sémen
/ˈsɛ.mɛn/
The verdict
“sémen” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #67,793 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #67,793
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - líquido fecundante segregado pelos órgãos reprodutores dos animais masculinos
| 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) |
Where “sémen” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sémen is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɛ.mɛn/. Corpus data places it at rank #67,793 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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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Using “sémen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-É-M-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈsɛ.mɛn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.