genio
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,562
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
genio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Índole o carácter de cada uno. Pronounced [ˈxenjo]. It ranks #3,562 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Gino and guió.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | genio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxenjo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for genio is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxenjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,562 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for genio, with forms such as "egnio", "geino", and "gennio". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Gino", "guió", "gente", 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 genio, spelled G-E-N-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Índole o carácter de cada uno.
- 2Facultad para controlar las acciones propias.
- 3Predisposición natural para cultivar algún ramo del saber humano.
- 4Ánimo, arrojo.
- 5Inteligencia, viveza en la acción.
- 6Espíritu que se supone presidir al bien, al mal, a la guerra, etc.
- 7Cada uno de los niños alados que comúnmente se colocan al lado de una divinidad; simbolizan virtudes y pasiones.
- 8Divinidad que se suponía árbitra de los destinos humanos y engendradora de cuanto hay en la Naturaleza.
- 9Cada una de las divinidades intermedias entre los dioses y los hombres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egnio,geino,gennio,genoi,ggenio,gneio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for genio
Misspelling Variants of "genio"
Frequency rank: #3,562 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Spanish index: