feminine
fem·i·nine/ˈfɛmɪnɪn/adjective, noun
feminine is spelled F-E-M-I-N-I-N-E, 3 syllables: fem·i·nine. The wrong spelling people search most is femenine: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 45 of all searches for the word. Feminine is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the female gender”.
How many letters and syllables are in feminine?
| Letters | 8: F-E-M-I-N-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: fem·i·nine |
| In writing | 8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, femenine, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell feminine?
Feminine is spelled F-E-M-I-N-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 45 of the searches for feminine in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is feminine?
Feminine appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th 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 pronounce feminine?
- /ˈfɛmɪnɪn/
- /ˈfɛmənɪn/
Feminine has 3 syllables, split fem·i·nine in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-feminine.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of feminine
- more feminine comparative
- most feminine superlative
- f.
- f
- feminines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does feminine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the female gender.
- 2
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
- 3
Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
- 4
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive, sensual; womanly.
- 5
Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
- 6
Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
- 7
Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
- 8
Following or ending on an unstressed syllable.
Feminine caesura, feminine catalexis, feminine ending, feminine rhyme.
noun
- 1
That which is feminine.
- 2
obsoleterareA woman.
- 3
The feminine gender.
- 4
A word of the feminine gender.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate feminine?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of feminine: f, f., fem., femin..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Feminine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | féminin |
| German | feminin, weiblich , Femininum |
| Portuguese | feminino |
| Spanish | femenino , femenil, de mujeres |
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.
Where does feminine come from?
From Middle English feminine, femynyne, femynyn, from Old French feminin, feminine, from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-eh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”). Related to fetus, feminism, filial, fellatio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).