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unisex

uni·sex/ˈjunəˌsɛks/adjective, noun

unisex is an adjective meaning “Not distinguished on the basis of sex or gender; suitable for any sex or gender” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-I-S-E-X and has 2 syllables (uni·sex), and it appears 1.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does unisex mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Not distinguished on the basis of sex or gender; suitable for any sex or gender.

    Kim is a unisex name.

  2. 2

    datedOf or pertaining to only one sex or gender; unisexual.

noun

  1. 1

    The state of not being distinguished on the basis of sex or gender; the state of being suitable for any sex or gender.

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

How do you pronounce unisex?

  • UK /ˈjuːnɪsɛks/
  • US /ˈjunəˌsɛks/

Unisex has 2 syllables, split uni·sex in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-unisex.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is unisex?

Unisex appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th 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).

Unisex in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense not distinguished on the basis of sex or gender; suitable for any sex or gender:

LanguageWords
Frenchunisexe, épicène, unigenre
Germanunisex, geschlechtsneutral
Portugueseunissex, unissexo, epiceno
Spanishunisex

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 unisex come from?

From uni- (prefix meaning ‘one, single’) + sex.

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