gen

/[ˈxẽn]/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,961

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

gen is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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 ... Pronounced [ˈxẽn]. It ranks #8,961 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with go and gr.

Key facts for gen
PropertyValue
Headwordgen
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈxẽn]
Letters3
Frequency rank#8,961
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gen in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for gen is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 ...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

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 gen, spelled G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 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

Frequency rank: #8,961 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gen"?
"gen" is spelled G-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈxẽn].
What does "gen" mean?
As a noun, "gen" means: 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 ...
What words are commonly confused with "gen"?
"gen" is commonly confused with "go", "gr", "gu". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gen" is [ˈxẽn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gen" come from?
"gen" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.