frankenfood
/ˈfɹæŋk(ə)nˌfuːd/noun
frankenfood is a derogatory noun meaning “Genetically modified food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-N-K-E-N-F-O-O-D and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frankenfood is frankenfoods.
What does frankenfood mean?
noun
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colloquialderogatoryGenetically modified food.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of frankenfood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frankenfood?
- /ˈfɹæŋk(ə)nˌfuːd/
Frankenfood has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-frankenfood.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of frankenfood
- frankenfoods plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frankenfood?
Frankenfood appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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 frankenfood come from?
From franken- + food.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).