semita
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,223
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
semita is anPortugueseadj. It means: relativo ao grupo étnico e linguístico ao qual se atribui Sem como ancestral, e que compreende os hebreus, os assírios, os aramaicos, os fenícios e os árabes Pronounced /sɨ.ˈmi.tɐ/. Often confused with seta and seria.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semita |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /sɨ.ˈmi.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for semita is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɨ.ˈmi.tɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #36,223 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for semita, with forms such as "esmita", "seimta", and "semiat". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "seta", "seria", "sexta", 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 semita, spelled S-E-M-I-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1relativo ao grupo étnico e linguístico ao qual se atribui Sem como ancestral, e que compreende os hebreus, os assírios, os aramaicos, os fenícios e os árabes
- 2relativo a judeu
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esmita,seimta,semiat,semitta,semmita,semtia,smeita,ssemita
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for semita
Misspelling Variants of "semita"
Frequency rank: #36,223 in Portuguese
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