fancam
noun
fancam is a noun meaning “Amateur film footage of a celebrity taken unofficially by a fan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-N-C-A-M, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fancam is fancams.
What does fancam mean?
noun
- 1
Amateur film footage of a celebrity taken unofficially by a fan.
- 2
An edit which incorporates fancams.
- 3
slangAn edit, such as an AMV, which features clips from a piece of media, generally surrounding a single character.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fancam?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-fancam.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fancam
- fancams plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fancam?
Fancam appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).
Fancam in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense footage:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | fancam |
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 fancam come from?
From fan + cam.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).