fascinator
noun
fascinator is a noun meaning “A fascinating person or thing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-S-C-I-N-A-T-O-R, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fascinator is fascinators.
What does fascinator mean?
noun
- 1
A fascinating person or thing.
- 2
A delicate, often frivolous head decoration worn on the hair, primarily by women.
- 3
USdatedA type of wool or lace headscarf.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fascinator?
- 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-fascinator.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fascinator
- fascinators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fascinator?
Fascinator appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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 fascinator come from?
From fascinate + -or.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).