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cisgender

/sɪsˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/adjective, noun

cisgender is spelled C-I-S-G-E-N-D-E-R: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, cisgender means “Having a gender identity which matches the sex one was assigned at birth; or, pertaining to such people” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cisgender?

Letters9: C-I-S-G-E-N-D-E-R
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 71,529th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is cisgender?

Cisgender appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th 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).

How do you pronounce cisgender?

  • UK /sɪsˈdʒɛndə/
  • US /sɪsˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-cisgender.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with cisgender

Also written: cis-gender (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with cisgender?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cisgender from its last stressed vowel (/ɛndəɹ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of cisgender

  • cisgenders plural

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

What does cisgender mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a gender identity which matches the sex one was assigned at birth; or, pertaining to such people.

noun

  1. 1

    A cisgender person.

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

Cisgender in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcisgenre, cissexuel (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex…)
Germancisgender, cis-gender, cis, cisgeschlechtlich, zisgeschlechtlich, zissexuell (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex…)
Portuguesecisgênero, cisgénero (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex…)
Spanishcisgénero (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex…), cisexual (person who has a gender the same as their sex)

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 cisgender come from?

From cis- (“on this side of”) + gender, by analogy with transgender. First attested in 1997. Compare slightly earlier cisgendered (1994).

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

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