gen
[ˈxẽn]
The verdict
“gen” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,961) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,961
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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 ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-gen · gen · Spanish
gen · rank #8,961 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,961
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH golpea
Nearest frequency peer: golpea (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “gen”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- forro
forro
91,043 corpus weight
- francesas
francesas
91,042 corpus weight
- gen
gen
91,040 corpus weight
- golpea
golpea
91,039 corpus weight
- gradualmente
gradualmente
91,038 corpus weight
- gremio
gremio
91,037 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “gen” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “gen”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gen is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "gr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈxẽn]. Frequency #8,961 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "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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