transsexual

1. 1.

   identifying with the opposite gender from the one that one is born with

Other forms of transsexual

plural

transsexuals·

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 transsexual

What does transsexual mean?

transsexual means "a person who has undergone a sex change operation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transsexual?

transsexual has 4 syllables: trans-sex-u-al. The stress falls on "sex". In IPA it is /tɹænˈsɛkʃjuəl/.

What is another word for transsexual?

Close synonyms include transexual, transgendered, transexual. 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 transsexual a common word?

transsexual is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.