feminist

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The English entry for feminist is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfɛmənɪst/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,883 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Relating to or in accordance with feminism.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for feminist, with forms such as "efminist", "feimnist", and "femiinst". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "feminists", "feminine", "feminism", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: First recorded in English 1852. Ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). See also feminine, feminism. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is feminist, spelled F-E-M-I-N-I-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.