genitor
The verdict
“genitor” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #82,911 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #82,911
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aquele que gera ou gerou um descendente; pai, mãe
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | genitor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “genitor” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for genitor is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #82,911 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "aquele que gera ou gerou um descendente; pai, mãe".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for genitor, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is genitor, spelled G-E-N-I-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1aquele que gera ou gerou um descendente; pai, mãe
This word in other languages
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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Using “genitor”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is G-E-N-I-T-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.