semiofficial

1. 1.

   having some official authority or sanction

   Similarofficial

Questions about semiofficial

What does semiofficial mean?

semiofficial means "having some official authority or sanction".

How many syllables are in semiofficial?

semiofficial has 6 syllables and divides as se-mi-of-fi-ci-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is semiofficial a common word?

semiofficial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.