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transgender

trans·gen·derUK /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndə/adjective, noun, verb

transgender is spelled T-R-A-N-S-G-E-N-D-E-R: 11 letters and 3 syllables (trans·gen·der). It appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, transgender means “Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in transgender?

Letters11: T-R-A-N-S-G-E-N-D-E-R
Syllables3: trans·gen·der
In writing8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is transgender?

Transgender appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th 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 transgender?

  • UK /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndə/
  • UK /tɹɑːnz-/
  • UK /tɹæns-/

Transgender has 3 syllables, split trans·gen·der in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-transgender.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with transgender

Also written: trans-gender (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with transgender?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as transgender from its last stressed vowel (/ɛndə/, British pronunciation):

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 transgender

  • transgener
  • xgender
  • transgenders plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • transgendering participle, present
  • transgendered participle, past

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

What does transgender mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender.

  2. 2

    Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is opposite from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male but having a female gender, or vice versa (that is, not including a non-binary identity).

  3. 3

    Of a person: transgressing or not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female.

  4. 4

    Of or pertaining to transgender people (adjective sense 1), or their experiences or identity.

  5. 5

    Of a space: intended primarily for transgender people.

  6. 6

    Of a space: available for use by transgender people, rather than only non-transgender people.

  7. 7

    datedSynonym of crossgender (“across multiple genders”).

noun

  1. 1

    offensiveA transgender person

  2. 2

    offensiveTransgender people collectively.

  3. 3

    rareSynonym of transgenderism (“the state of being transgender”).

verb

  1. 1

    offensiveTo change the gender of (someone).

  2. 2

    offensiveTo change the sex of (someone).

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

How do you abbreviate transgender?

Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of transgender: TG, TGI, xgender.

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

Transgender in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtransgenre, trans ((broadly) of a person: having a gender…)
Germantransgender, trans, trans*, transgeschlechtlich ((broadly) of a person: having a gender…), Transperson, Transmensch (transgender person)
Portuguesetransgénero, transgênero ((broadly) of a person: having a gender…)
Spanishtransgénero ((broadly) of a person: having a gender…), transgénera (transgender person)

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.

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