fangame
/ˈfæŋˌɡeɪm/noun
fangame is a noun meaning “A video game created by fans of an existing game, and based on it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-N-G-A-M-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fangame is fangames.
What does fangame mean?
noun
- 1
slangA video game created by fans of an existing game, and based on it.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fangame?
- US /ˈfæŋˌɡeɪm/
Fangame has 2 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)-Flame,_not_lame-fangame.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fangame
- fangames plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fangame?
Fangame appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
Fangame in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense videogame made by fans:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | fangame |
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 fangame come from?
From fan + game.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).