genetic
/d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/adjective
genetic is spelled G-E-N-E-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is gentic: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 56 of all searches for the word. Genetic is an adjective meaning “Relating to genetics or genes”.
How many letters and syllables are in genetic?
| Letters | 7: G-E-N-E-T-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 4,015th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, gentic, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 genetic?
Genetic is spelled G-E-N-E-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 55 of the searches for genetic 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 genetic?
Genetic appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 4,015th 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 genetic?
- /d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/
- /d͡ʒɪˈnɛt.ɪk/
- /ˈdʒɛ.nə.ʈɪk/
Genetic has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-genetic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does genetic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Relating to genetics or genes.
- 2
Caused by genes.
- 3
Of or relating to origin (genesis).
- 4
Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.
Chinese has borrowed several words from English, but it does not have a genetic relationship to English.
- 5
Based on a shared membership in a religious family.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Genetic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to genetics or genes:
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 genetic come from?
Coined from genesis, similarly to antithesis, antithetic. Reflects Ancient Greek γενετικός (genetikós), from γένεσις (génesis) + -κός (-kós). Ultimately from Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). By surface analysis, gene + -tic or gen(esis) + -etic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).