authoress
/ˈɔ.θɚ.ɹɛs/noun
authoress is a noun meaning “A female author” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-H-O-R-E-S-S and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of authoress is authoresses.
What does authoress mean?
noun
- 1
datedA female author.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce authoress?
- UK /ˈɔː.θə.ɹɛs/
- US /ˈɔ.θɚ.ɹɛs/
Authoress has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-authoress.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of authoress
- authoresses plural
- authouress
- authress
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is authoress?
Authoress appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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).
Authoress in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense female author:
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 authoress come from?
From Middle English aucteuresse; equivalent to author + -ess.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).