Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sextort

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sex-tort
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To coerce through the threat of revealing someone's sexual history.

Informal; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Several of my clients were sextorted by former partners who threatened to distribute their target's naked images or videos unless the women returned to the relationships or acquiesced to the offenders' demands for sex."
"On the evening of February 7, Jeff Bezos announced that he had been sextorted. The Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner didn’t use the term in his bombshell Medium post, in which he accused the National Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc., of blackmailing him with “intimate photos” that he had taken of himself."

Etymology

Blend of sex + extort.

Usage

Inflected Forms

sextorts (present, singular) sextorting (participle, present) sextorted (participle, past) sextorted (past)

Derived Forms

sextortion

Questions

What does sextort mean?: To coerce through the threat of revealing someone's sexual history.
Where does sextort come from?: Blend of sex + extort.

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