misogyny
/mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/noun
misogyny is spelled M-I-S-O-G-Y-N-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is mysogyny: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Misogyny is a noun meaning “Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women”. The plural of misogyny is misogynies.
How many letters and syllables are in misogyny?
| Letters | 8: M-I-S-O-G-Y-N-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words; the 22,362nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mysogyny, about 270 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell misogyny?
Misogyny is spelled M-I-S-O-G-Y-N-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for misogyny in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is misogyny?
Misogyny appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,362nd 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).
How do you pronounce misogyny?
- UK /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
- US /mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
Misogyny has 4 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: En-us-misogyny.ogg, En-au-misogyny.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with misogyny?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as misogyny from its last stressed vowel (/ɑdʒɪni/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of misogyny
- misogynies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does misogyny mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Misogyny in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense hatred or contempt for women:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | misogynie |
| German | Frauenhass, Frauenfeindlichkeit, Misogynie, Weiberhass |
| Portuguese | misoginia |
| Spanish | misoginia |
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 misogyny come from?
From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).