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fanilects

fanilects is the plural of fanilect.

Meaning of fanilect

Noun

fanilect (plural fanilects)

  1. (slang) The lect of a fandom, including in-group slang, phrases, and expressions.
    • The internet serves as an accelerant to fanilects. Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call "persistence," meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them. […] If a familect exists within a family unit, then an online community’s fanilect expands...2023 February 3, Pia Ceres, “Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics Is an Actual Linguistic Thing”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2023

Questions about fanilects

What is fanilects the plural of?
Fanilects is the plural of fanilect.

Words near fanilects in the dictionary

  1. fanhouse
  2. fanhouses
  3. Fani
  4. Fanigalo
  5. fanilect
  6. fanilects
  7. Fanilow
  8. Fanilows
  9. Fanilton
  10. Faniltons
  11. fanimorous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanilects (page history and authors); fanilect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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