gen
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.
| 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) |
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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
- 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.
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Frequency rank: #8,961 in Spanish
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