Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cissexual

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cis-sex-u-al
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
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Etymology

From cis- + sexual, by analogy with transsexual, after the slightly earlier (1991) German zissexuell.

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What does cissexual mean?
Having a gender identity which matches one's birth sex; for example, identifying as male and having (been born with) male genitalia.
Where does cissexual come from?
From cis- + sexual, by analogy with transsexual, after the slightly earlier (1991) German zissexuell.

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