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cyclogenesis

/ˌsaɪkləʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/noun

cyclogenesis is a noun meaning “The process which leads to the formation of tropical storms, cyclones and hurricanes; typically involves an interaction that leads to vertical wind…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-C-L-O-G-E-N-E-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyclogenesis is cyclogeneses.

What does cyclogenesis mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The process which leads to the formation of tropical storms, cyclones and hurricanes; typically involves an interaction that leads to vertical wind shear.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce cyclogenesis?

  • /ˌsaɪkləʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cyclogenesis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of cyclogenesis

  • cyclogeneses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is cyclogenesis?

Cyclogenesis appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).

Cyclogenesis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the process which leads to the formation of tropical storms, cyclones and hurric:

LanguageWords
Frenchcyclogenèse
GermanZyklogenese
Portugueseciclogênese
Spanishciclogénesis

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 cyclogenesis come from?

From cyclo- + -genesis.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).