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stateswoman

noun

stateswoman is spelled S-T-A-T-E-S-W-O-M-A-N: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stateswoman means “A woman who is a leader in national or international affairs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stateswoman is stateswomen.

How many letters and syllables are in stateswoman?

Letters11: S-T-A-T-E-S-W-O-M-A-N
In writingabout once in every 55 million words; the 231,291st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is stateswoman?

Stateswoman appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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).

Forms of stateswoman

  • stateswomen plural

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

What does stateswoman mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A woman who is a leader in national or international affairs.

  2. 2

    A female political leader who promotes the public good or who is recognized for probity, leadership, or the qualities necessary to govern a state.

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

Stateswoman in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense woman who is a leader in national or international affairs:

LanguageWords
Frenchfemme d'État

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 stateswoman come from?

From state + -s- + -woman.

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

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