gendersex
/ˈd͡ʒɛndəsɛks/
"gendersex" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gendersex” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gendersex · gendersex · English
gendersex · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gendersex |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒɛndəsɛks/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gendersex” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gendersex is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈd͡ʒɛndəsɛks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gendersex, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gender + sex. The correct English form is gendersex, spelled G-E-N-D-E-R-S-E-X.
Definition
- 1Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gendersex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Holm provides a contextualised analysis of two life stories by persons in trans or intersex(ed) positions who applied for the legal change of their gendersex status, as Holm innovatively names it.
the technologies and histories of racial and colonial gendering that have established binary gendersex as one of the primary fault lines for securing and differentiating the national body
Etymology
From gender + sex.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.