Filipinx
/fɪ.ləˈpin.ɛks/
Filipinx noun: a Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).
Noun
Filipinx (plural Filipinxs)
Adjective
Filipinx (not comparable)
- Filipina or Filipino (and any gender).
- I didn't want people knowing I was Filipinx, or Chinese, I didn't want them laughing at my culture, or my food, or asking me why my clothes always smelled like I had just come from a buffet.2017 November 15, Robert Diaz, Marissa Largo, Fritz Pino, Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN
- […] was Filipinx American. As a nine-year-old who knew nothing of the world outside my German Canadian hometown, I identified with her.2025 August 26, Jenny Heijun Wills, Everything and Nothing At All: Essays, Random House, →ISBN, page 23
Synonyms of Filipinx
Forms of Filipinx
| plural | Filipinxs |
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Origin of Filipinx
The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o of Filipina and Filipino, which are from Spanish filipina and Spanish filipino, both from Spanish Filipinas (“Philippines”), from Felipe II de España (“Philip II of Spain”), from Felipe (“Philip”).
Questions about Filipinx
- What does Filipinx mean?
- Filipinx means a Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).
- What part of speech is Filipinx?
- Filipinx can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce Filipinx?
- Filipinx is pronounced /fɪ.ləˈpin.ɛks/.
- What is the plural of Filipinx?
- The plural of Filipinx is Filipinxs.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Filipinx (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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