femslash
noun
femslash is a noun meaning “Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-M-S-L-A-S-H, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does femslash mean?
noun
- 1
slangSlash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of femslash
- femmeslash
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is femslash?
Femslash appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 femslash come from?
From fem + slash.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).