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foeticide

noun

foeticide is a noun meaning “Alternative form of feticide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-E-T-I-C-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foeticide is foeticides.

What does foeticide mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of feticide

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

Forms of foeticide

  • foeticides plural

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

How common is foeticide?

Foeticide appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 foeticide come from?

From foetus + -cide or foetus + -icide; see feticide for more.

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