gen
[ˈxẽn]
The verdict
“gen” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #8,961 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,961
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unidad física y funcional del material hereditario que determina un carácter del individuo y que se trasmite de generación en generación. Desde el punto de vista molecular, un gen es una secuencia ...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxẽn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gen” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for gen is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxẽn]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,961 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unidad física y funcional del material hereditario que determina un carácter del individuo y que se trasmite de generación en generación. Desde el punto de vista molecular, un gen es una secuencia ...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "gr", "gu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is gen, spelled G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Unidad física y funcional del material hereditario que determina un carácter del individuo y que se trasmite de generación en generación. Desde el punto de vista molecular, un gen es una secuencia lineal de nucleótidos en la molécula de ADN, que contiene la información necesaria para la síntesis de una macromolécula con función celular específica.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈxẽn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “go” - see the side-by-side comparison. gen vs go
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.