feminist
fem·in·ist/ˈfɛmənɪst/adjective, noun
feminist is spelled F-E-M-I-N-I-S-T, 3 syllables: fem·in·ist. The wrong spelling people search most is femminist: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 75 of all searches for the word. Feminist is an adjective meaning “Relating to or in accordance with feminism”.
How many letters and syllables are in feminist?
| Letters | 8: F-E-M-I-N-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: fem·in·ist |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, femminist, about 20 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 feminist?
Feminist is spelled F-E-M-I-N-I-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 75 of the searches for feminist 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 feminist?
Feminist appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th 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 feminist?
- /ˈfɛmənɪst/
Feminist has 3 syllables, split fem·in·ist in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-feminist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of feminist
- more feminist comparative
- most feminist superlative
- feminists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does feminist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Relating to or in accordance with feminism.
noun
- 1
An advocate of feminism; a person who believes in bringing about the equality of the sexes (of women and men) in all aspects of public and private life.
- 2
A member of a feminist political movement.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Feminist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | féministe |
| German | feministisch , Feminist, Feministin, Feminist:in gender-neutral |
| Portuguese | feminista |
| Spanish | feminista |
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 feminist come from?
First attested in 1852. Ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). See also feminine, feminism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).