gens

//ˈɡeːns// noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#66,226

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

gens is aPortuguesenoun. It means: família, clã ou tribo romana; pessoas com o mesmo nome de família Pronounced /ˈɡeːns/.

Key facts for gens
PropertyValue
Headwordgens
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈɡeːns/
Letters4
Frequency rank#66,226
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gens in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for gens is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡeːns/. Corpus data places it at rank #66,226 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "família, clã ou tribo romana; pessoas com o mesmo nome de família".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for gens in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Portuguese form is gens, spelled G-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    família, clã ou tribo romana; pessoas com o mesmo nome de família

Frequency rank: #66,226 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gens"?
"gens" is spelled G-E-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈɡeːns/.
What does "gens" mean?
As a noun, "gens" means: família, clã ou tribo romana; pessoas com o mesmo nome de família
How do you pronounce "gens"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gens" is /ˈɡeːns/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gens" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.