tigress
/ˈtaɪ.ɡɹɪs/noun
tigress is a noun meaning “A female tiger; a she-tiger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-I-G-R-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tigress is tigresses.
What does tigress mean?
noun
- 1
A female tiger; a she-tiger.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tigress?
- /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹɪs/
- /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹəs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tigress.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of tigress
- tigresses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tigress?
Tigress appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd 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).
Tigress in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense female tiger:
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 tigress come from?
From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger + -ess.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).