semestral
/sɨ.mɨʃ.ˈtɾaɫ/
The verdict
“semestral” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,117 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,117
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que dura seis meses (meio ano)
Corpus desk
Index PT-semestral · semestral · Portuguese
semestral · rank #54,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,117
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sublimação
Nearest frequency peer: sublimação (+20 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 “semestral”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ramada
ramada
45,916 corpus weight
- semestral
semestral
45,884 corpus weight
- sublimação
sublimação
45,864 corpus weight
- suplício
suplício
45,860 corpus weight
- terceirizar
terceirizar
45,849 corpus weight
- tereis
tereis
45,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “semestral” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semestral |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /sɨ.mɨʃ.ˈtɾaɫ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “semestral” em português
Rare enough to double-check
semestral is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,117 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /sɨ.mɨʃ.ˈtɾaɫ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
semestral doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is semestral, spelled S-E-M-E-S-T-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1que dura seis meses (meio ano)
- 2que se realiza de neste período
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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