criminogenic
adjective
criminogenic is an adjective meaning “Tending to produce crime or criminals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-O-G-E-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does criminogenic mean?
adjective
- 1
Tending to produce crime or criminals.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of criminogenic
- more criminogenic comparative
- most criminogenic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is criminogenic?
Criminogenic appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Criminogenic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense tending to produce crime:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | criminogène |
| German | kriminogen |
| Portuguese | criminogênico, criminogênica |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does criminogenic come from?
From criminal + -genic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).