degenerar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#79,966
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
degenerar is aSpanishverb. It means: Tener o llegar a un estado inferior a uno anterior; declinar, decaer, descender, empeorar en condición o en valor. Pronounced [d̪exeneˈɾaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | degenerar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪exeneˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for degenerar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪exeneˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #79,966 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for degenerar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is degenerar, spelled D-E-G-E-N-E-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tener o llegar a un estado inferior a uno anterior; declinar, decaer, descender, empeorar en condición o en valor.
- 2Tener o llegar a una condición o modo de vida considerado menos virtuoso, de menos fuerza moral o de menos integridad ética que uno anterior.
- 3Se dice de una célula o un tejido que pierde la integridad de su estructura o de su funcionamiento.
- 4Referido a una figura, en especial geométrica, parecerse a otra por causa de la perspectiva.
Frequency rank: #79,966 in Spanish
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