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fanling

/ˈfænlɪŋ/noun

fanling is a noun meaning “An inexperienced fan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-N-L-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fanling is fanlings.

What does fanling mean?

noun

  1. 1

    slangAn inexperienced fan.

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

How do you pronounce fanling?

  • /ˈfænlɪŋ/

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

Forms of fanling

  • fanlings plural

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

How common is fanling?

Fanling appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 fanling come from?

From fan + -ling.

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