ladyboy
\ˈleɪdiˌbɔɪ\
The verdict
“ladyboy” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme transgenre, souvent jeune, généralement en Asie du sud-est.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ladyboy · ladyboy · French
ladyboy · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | ladyboy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈleɪdiˌbɔɪ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ladyboy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ladyboy is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈleɪdiˌbɔɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme transgenre, souvent jeune, généralement en Asie du sud-est.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ladyboy, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ladyboy, spelled L-A-D-Y-B-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Femme transgenre, souvent jeune, généralement en Asie du sud-est.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ladyboy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I was, minding my own business in a ladyboy bar, sipping my Ladyboy cocktail, served by a ladyboy, when two more ladyboys come in and started pole-dancing.
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.