Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

guevedoce

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gueve-doce
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In the Dominican Republic, a person born with male gonads, but who appears to have female external genitalia, as a result of a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.

Etymology

From Spanish güevedoce, from Dominican Spanish güevos a los doce (“testicles at twelve”).

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: güevedoce

Inflected Forms

guevedoces (plural) guevedoche (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

kwolu-aatmwol

Questions

What does guevedoce mean?: In the Dominican Republic, a person born with male gonads, but who appears to have female external genitalia, as a result of a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.
Where does guevedoce come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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