germen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,657
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
germen is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pequeña masa de células de la cual comienza a desarrollarse un nuevo ser vivo. Pronounced [ˈxeɾmẽn]. Often confused with green and gérmenes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | germen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxeɾmẽn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for germen is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxeɾmẽn]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,657 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 germen, with forms such as "egrmen", "gemren", and "geremn". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "green", "gérmenes", "garden", 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 germen, spelled G-E-R-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pequeña masa de células de la cual comienza a desarrollarse un nuevo ser vivo.
- 2Parte interna de la semilla de la cual se forma una nueva planta.
- 3Semilla germinada y tallo inicial que brota de ella.
- 4Organismo microscópico, especialmente el que es dañino.
- 5Lo que da inicio u origen a una cosa material o inmaterial.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egrmen,gemren,geremn,germenn,germmen,germne,gerrmen,ggermen,gremen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for germen
Misspelling Variants of "germen"
Frequency rank: #25,657 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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