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androcentric

adjective

androcentric is spelled A-N-D-R-O-C-E-N-T-R-I-C: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, androcentric means “Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting androcentrism; focused on males” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in androcentric?

Letters12: A-N-D-R-O-C-E-N-T-R-I-C
In writingabout once in every 56 million words; the 234,209th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is androcentric?

Androcentric appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of androcentric

  • more androcentric comparative
  • most androcentric superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does androcentric mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting androcentrism; focused on males.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Androcentric in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense focused on males:

LanguageWords
Frenchandrocentré, androcentrique
Portugueseandrocêntrico
Spanishandrocéntrico

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does androcentric come from?

From andro- + -centric.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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