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fannish

/ˈfæn.ɪʃ/adjective

fannish is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to a fan; characteristic of fandom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-N-N-I-S-H, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fannish mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to a fan; characteristic of fandom.

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

How do you pronounce fannish?

  • /ˈfæn.ɪʃ/

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

Forms of fannish

  • more fannish comparative
  • most fannish superlative

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

How common is fannish?

Fannish appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 fannish come from?

From fan + -ish.

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