womyn
"womyn" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“womyn” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feminist spelling of woman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-womyn · womyn · English
womyn · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | womyn |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “womyn” in English
Rare enough to double-check
womyn is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for womyn, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From woman and women; respelled so as not to contain the words man or men. Compare myn. The correct English form is womyn, spelled W-O-M-Y-N.
Definition
- 1Feminist spelling of woman.
- 2Feminist spelling of women.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how womyn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Summoning all my courage, I touched and kissed a womyn for the first time. I cannot describe what I felt at that moment.
I dug with my bare hands through the bullshit where beneath I discovered a womyn. She was an incredibly angry womyn, but a womyn nonetheless.
Etymology
From woman and women; respelled so as not to contain the words man or men. Compare myn.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.