gen
The verdict
“gen” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,523) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,523
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gene
Corpus desk
Index PT-gen · gen · Portuguese
gen · rank #16,523 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,523
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH galho
Nearest frequency peer: galho (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “gen”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- excessos
excessos
83,487 corpus weight
- fungo
fungo
83,482 corpus weight
- furioso
furioso
83,481 corpus weight
- galho
galho
83,480 corpus weight
- gen
gen
83,478 corpus weight
- gringo
gringo
83,475 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “gen” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gen |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “gen”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gen is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GG", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #16,523 among 521 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for gen in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GG", "GQ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is gen, spelled G-E-N.
Definition
- 1gene
- 2parte da constituição inerente que dá azo, provoca o surgimento, origina, principia algo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No teste da luciferase, uma amostra clinica é colocada em um meio onde está um fago contendo o gen da luciferase. Se o M. tuberculosis estiver viável, ele irá infectar o fago e o gen da luciferase funcionará produzindo luz visivel
se utilizaram duas amplificações de PCR ; TcH2AF / R para o gen da histona H2A / SIRE e TrFR2 , para um gen repetitivo de ARN nucleolar CII ( snoRNA - Cll ).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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