councilwoman
noun
councilwoman is a noun meaning “A feminine member of a council, especially a city council or town council” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-U-N-C-I-L-W-O-M-A-N and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of councilwoman is councilwomen.
What does councilwoman mean?
noun
- 1
A feminine member of a council, especially a city council or town council.
Near-synonyms: councilmember, councilperson, councilor, councillor, councilman, selectperson, selectman, selectwoman
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce councilwoman?
- US
Councilwoman has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-councilwoman.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of councilwoman
- councilwomen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is councilwoman?
Councilwoman appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 53,573rd 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).
Where does councilwoman come from?
From council + -woman.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).