dysgenic
/dɪsˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/adjective
dysgenic is spelled D-Y-S-G-E-N-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is disgenic: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Dysgenic is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to, or causing degeneration or deterioration in offspring”.
How many letters and syllables are in dysgenic?
| Letters | 8: D-Y-S-G-E-N-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, disgenic, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell dysgenic?
Dysgenic is spelled D-Y-S-G-E-N-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for dysgenic in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is dysgenic?
Dysgenic appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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).
How do you pronounce dysgenic?
- /dɪsˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of dysgenic
- more dysgenic comparative
- most dysgenic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dysgenic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to, or causing degeneration or deterioration in offspring.
- 2
Of or relating to dysgenics.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does dysgenic come from?
From dys- + -genic, produced from New Latin dys- from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) and γένος (génos, “offspring”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).