filicide
/ˈfɪ.lɪ.sʌɪd/noun
filicide is a noun meaning “The killing of one's own child” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-L-I-C-I-D-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of filicide is filicides.
What does filicide mean?
noun
- 1
The killing of one's own child.
- 2
A person who kills his or her own child.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce filicide?
- UK /ˈfɪ.lɪ.sʌɪd/
Filicide has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of filicide
- filicides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is filicide?
Filicide appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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).
Filicide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 filicide come from?
From Latin fīlius (“son”), fīlia (“daughter”) + -cide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).