Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

filipinx

/fɪ.ləˈpin.ɛks/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fil-ip-inx
IPA: /fɪ.ləˈpin.ɛks/

20

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).

American usage

adj

Filipina or Filipino (and any gender).

Example Sentences

"I didn't want people knowing I was Filipinx, or Chinese, I didn't want them laughing at my culture, or my food, or asking me why my clothes always smelled like I had just come from a buffet."
"[…] was Filipinx American. As a nine-year-old who knew nothing of the world outside my German Canadian hometown, I identified with her."

Etymology

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o of Filipina and Filipino, which are from Spanish filipina and Spanish filipino, both from Spanish Filipinas (“Philippines”), from Felipe II de España (“Philip II of Spain”), from Felipe (“Philip”).

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: filipina, filipino, Filipinas

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

Filipinxs (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Chicanx Latinx

Synonyms

Filipin@ Filipino

Questions

How do you pronounce filipinx?: The recorded pronunciation is /fɪ.ləˈpin.ɛks/.
What does filipinx mean?: A Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).
Where does filipinx come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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