villainess
noun
villainess is a noun meaning “A female villain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-L-L-A-I-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of villainess is villainesses.
What does villainess mean?
noun
- 1
A female villain.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce villainess?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-villainess.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of villainess
- villainesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is villainess?
Villainess appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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).
Villainess in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense female villain:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | méchante |
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 villainess come from?
From villain + -ess.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).