género negro
[ˈxeneɾo ˈneɣ̞ɾo]
The verdict
“género negro” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Subgénero de la novela policíaca en la que la resolución del misterio no es el objetivo principal y es por costumbre muy violenta; en ella las divisiones entre bien y mal se difuminan y la mayor pa...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | género negro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈxeneɾo ˈneɣ̞ɾo] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “género negro” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for género negro is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxeneɾo ˈneɣ̞ɾo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Subgénero de la novela policíaca en la que la resolución del misterio no es el objetivo principal y es por costumbre muy violenta; en ella las divisiones entre bien y mal se difuminan y la mayor pa...".
No misspelling variants are generated for género negro in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 género negro, spelled G-É-N-E-R-O- -N-E-G-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Subgénero de la novela policíaca en la que la resolución del misterio no es el objetivo principal y es por costumbre muy violenta; en ella las divisiones entre bien y mal se difuminan y la mayor parte de sus protagonistas son individuos derrotados, en decadencia, que buscan encontrar la verdad (o por lo menos algún atisbo de ella).
Synonyms
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Using “género negro”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-É-N-E-R-O- -N-E-G-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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