genética

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for genética is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʒɨ.ˈnɛ.ti.kɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,185 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ramo da biologia que estuda a forma como se transmitem as características biológicas de geração para geração".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for genética, with forms such as "egnética", "gennética", and "gentéica". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "genético", "genérico", 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 Portuguese form is genética, spelled G-E-N-É-T-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.