gender

Other forms of gender

plural

genders·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gender

What does gender mean?

gender means "a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gender?

gender has 2 syllables: gen-der. The stress falls on "gen". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɛndɚ/.

What is another word for gender?

Close synonyms include grammatical gender, sex, sexuality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gender a common word?

gender is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gender?

2 words rhyme with gender. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.