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Yes. The word fem is a Scrabble US word. The word fem is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word fem is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

F4E1M3

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3-letter words (1 found)

FEM,

2-letter words (4 found)

EF,EM,FE,ME,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from fem according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of fem

fem efm fme mfe emf mef

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Definitions and meaning of fem

fem

Etymology

Clipping of feminine

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛm/
  • Rhymes: -ɛm

Noun

fem (plural fems)

  1. (LGBT, uncommon) Synonym of femme
    Antonym: butch
  2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person.
    • 2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr:
      "Versatile, but love to bottom [...] No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference."

Adjective

fem (comparative more fem, superlative most fem)

  1. (colloquial) Feminine, effeminate.
    Antonym: masc
  2. (LGBT) Synonym of femme
    Antonym: butch

Derived terms

  • femboy (a feminine male)
  • fem lib

Anagrams

  • EFM, EMF, MEF, emf

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin fimum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈfem]

Noun

fem m (plural fems)

  1. dung
  2. (chiefly in the plural) manure (animal excrement used as fertilizer)
  3. (in the plural, especially Balearic) rubbish
    Synonym: escombraries
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

  • (Balearic) feim (indicative), facem (subjunctive, imperative)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈfɛm]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈfəm]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈfem]

Verb

fem

  1. inflection of fer:
    1. first-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    2. first-person plural imperative

Further reading

  • “fem” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “fem”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “fem” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “fem” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (“five”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛmˀ]

Numeral

fem

  1. five

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf. Cognate with Swedish fem.

Numeral

fem

  1. five

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English femme, fem (with the rarer spelling borrowed to avoid ambiguity with French femme (“woman”)). English fem is itself from French femme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛm/

Noun

fem f (plural fems)

  1. a femme (feminine queer woman) (contrast butch)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛm/

Numeral

fem

  1. five

Derived terms

Related terms

  • femte

References

  • “fem” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm (“five”).

Numeral

fem

  1. five

Derived terms

  • femdel
  • femkamp
  • femkant
  • tjuefem

References

  • “fem” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • fim (Rumantsch Grischun)
  • füm (Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin fūmus.

Noun

fem m

  1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) smoke

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛm/

Numeral

fem

  1. five

Coordinate terms

Related terms

See also

  • noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv

References

  • fem in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • fem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • fem in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English fermentation.

Noun

fem (nominative plural fems)

  1. fermentation

Declension


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