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womxn

wo·mxn/ˈwʊ.mən/noun

womxn is spelled W-O-M-X-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables (wo·mxn). It appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, womxn means “Feminist spelling of woman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in womxn?

Letters5: W-O-M-X-N
Syllables2: wo·mxn
In writingabout once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st 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 womxn?

Womxn appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 womxn?

  • /ˈwʊ.mən/
  • /ˈwɪ.mɪn/

Womxn has 2 syllables, split wo·mxn in writing.

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

What does womxn mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    rareFeminist spelling of woman.

  2. 2

    rareFeminist spelling of women.

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

Where does womxn come from?

From women + -x-. Respelled both to avoid containing men (compare English womyn), and to use x (compare English Latinx), intended to convey that the word has a broad scope.

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

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