masculino genérico
[maskuˈlino xeˈneɾiko]
The verdict
“masculino genérico” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Uso del masculino como género no marcado, que puede hacer referencia a sujetos de cualquier género. Por ejemplo: Paco y María son mis amigos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masculino genérico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [maskuˈlino xeˈneɾiko] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “masculino genérico” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for masculino genérico is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maskuˈlino xeˈneɾiko]. 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: "Uso del masculino como género no marcado, que puede hacer referencia a sujetos de cualquier género. Por ejemplo: Paco y María son mis amigos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for masculino genérico 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 masculino genérico, spelled M-A-S-C-U-L-I-N-O- -G-E-N-É-R-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Uso del masculino como género no marcado, que puede hacer referencia a sujetos de cualquier género. Por ejemplo: Paco y María son mis amigos.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “masculino genérico”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-S-C-U-L-I-N-O- -G-E-N-É-R-I-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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