femboy
fem·boy/ˈfɛm.boɪ/noun
femboy is a noun meaning “A (typically young) male or non-binary individual who adopts a feminine aesthetic and has an androgynous appearance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-M-B-O-Y and has 2 syllables (fem·boy), and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of femboy is femboys.
What does femboy mean?
noun
- 1
A (typically young) male or non-binary individual who adopts a feminine aesthetic and has an androgynous appearance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce femboy?
- UK /ˈfɛm.bɔɪ/
- US /ˈfɛm.boɪ/
- Australia /ˈfem.boɪ/
Femboy has 2 syllables, split fem·boy in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: Femboy-UK.ogg, Femboy_Pronounciation_US_Southern_California.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of femboy
- femboys plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is femboy?
Femboy appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).
How do you abbreviate femboy?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of femboy: FB, fb.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Femboy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense male with feminine aesthetics:
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.