imagen
noun
imagen is a noun meaning “A unit of imagery, analogous to a logogen, but applicable to non-verbal systems” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-M-A-G-E-N, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of imagen is imagens.
What does imagen mean?
noun
- 1
A unit of imagery, analogous to a logogen, but applicable to non-verbal systems.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of imagen
- imagens plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is imagen?
Imagen appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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).
Where does imagen come from?
Coined by Allan Paivio, from image + -gen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).