cisgender
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The verdict
“cisgender” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Geschlechtsidentität habend, die mit dem körperlichen Geschlecht übereinstimmt; Menschen bezeichnend, deren Geschlechtsidentität mit ihrem körperlichen Geschlecht übereinstimmt
Corpus desk
Index DE-cisgender · cisgender · German
cisgender · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cisgender |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „cisgender“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
cisgender is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Geschlechtsidentität habend, die mit dem körperlichen Geschlecht übereinstimmt; Menschen bezeichnend, deren Geschlechtsidentität mit ihrem körperlichen Geschlecht übereinstimmt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cisgender, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is cisgender, spelled C-I-S-G-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1eine Geschlechtsidentität habend, die mit dem körperlichen Geschlecht übereinstimmt; Menschen bezeichnend, deren Geschlechtsidentität mit ihrem körperlichen Geschlecht übereinstimmt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cisgender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Stealth transmen, then, end up looking similar to heterosexual, cisgender men — and different from open transmen.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.