génio
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,765
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
génio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: espírito bom ou mau; Pronounced /ˈʒɛ.nju/. Often confused with gente and gesto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | génio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʒɛ.nju/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for génio is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʒɛ.nju/. Corpus data places it at rank #26,765 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for génio, with forms such as "ggénio", "gnéio", and "géino". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "gente", "gesto", "gerir", 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 Portuguese form is génio, spelled G-É-N-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1espírito bom ou mau;
- 2característica; dom; dote; índole; predicado; qualidade; temperamento;
- 3elevado grau de grande talento inato;
- 4braveza; irascibilidade.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggénio,gnéio,géino,génnio,génoi,égnio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for génio
Misspelling Variants of "génio"
Frequency rank: #26,765 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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