favoritism
noun
favoritism is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of favouritism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-V-O-R-I-T-I-S-M and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of favoritism is favoritisms.
What does favoritism mean?
noun
- 1
USAlternative spelling of favouritism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce favoritism?
Favoritism has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of favoritism
- favoritisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is favoritism?
Favoritism appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,943rd 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 favoritism come from?
From favorite + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).