gender

//ˈd͡ʒɛn.də// noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#39,775

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

gender is aSpanishnoun. It means: Género (conjunto de atributos socioculturales asignados a las personas a partir del sexo biológico). Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛn.də/. Often confused with gene and gente.

Key facts for gender
PropertyValue
Headwordgender
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈd͡ʒɛn.də/
Letters6
Frequency rank#39,775
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for gender is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈd͡ʒɛn.də/. Corpus data places it at rank #39,775 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for gender, with forms such as "egnder", "gedner", and "gendder". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "gene", "gente", "genes", 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 gender, spelled G-E-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Género (conjunto de atributos socioculturales asignados a las personas a partir del sexo biológico).
  2. 2
    Género.
  3. 3
    Género (clase; tipo).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: egnder,gedner,gendder,genderr,gendre,genedr,gennder,ggender,gneder

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gender

Misspelling Variants of "gender"

egnder6gedner6gendder7genderr7gendre6genedr6gennder7ggender7
Misspelling Variants of "gender"

Frequency rank: #39,775 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gender"?
"gender" is spelled G-E-N-D-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɛn.də/.
What does "gender" mean?
As a noun, "gender" means: Género (conjunto de atributos socioculturales asignados a las personas a partir del sexo biológico).
What words are commonly confused with "gender"?
"gender" is commonly confused with "gene", "gente", "genes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gender"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gender" is /ˈd͡ʒɛn.də/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gender" come from?
"gender" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index:

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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.