Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fourth gender

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English

Syllables
fourth -gen-der
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A category (a gender), present in societies which recognize four or more genders, which is neither cis male nor cis female; often, such societies consider trans men to constitute a third gender and trans women to constitute a fourth gender, or vice versa.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

fourth genders (plural) fourth-gender (alternative)

Phrases

third gender

Frequently Paired Words

third gender

Questions

What does fourth gender mean?
A category (a gender), present in societies which recognize four or more genders, which is neither cis male nor cis female; often, such societies consider trans men to constitute a third gender and trans women to constitute a fourth gender, or vice versa.

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