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femmy

adjective

femmy is an adjective meaning “Resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-M-M-Y, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does femmy mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    informalResembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of femmy

  • more femmy comparative
  • most femmy superlative
  • femme-y

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is femmy?

Femmy appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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 femmy come from?

From femme + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).