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frontwoman

noun

frontwoman is a noun meaning “The female lead singer in a band” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-O-N-T-W-O-M-A-N, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frontwoman is frontwomen.

What does frontwoman mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The female lead singer in a band.

    Near-synonym: frontperson

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

Forms of frontwoman

  • frontwomen plural

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

How common is frontwoman?

Frontwoman appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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 frontwoman come from?

From front + woman.

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