heighthon
heighthon noun: a trans woman who is clockable due to being significantly taller than a typical cis woman.
Noun
heighthon (plural heighthons)
- A trans woman who is clockable due to being significantly taller than a typical cis woman.
- >tfw 5'10 (literally 98 percentile for white women and 99.9999 percentile for non-white women)
>tfw 11 US women's shoe size (like 99 percentile for ALL women)
Forever a heighthon/foothon.2017 April 11, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/ - random old lady i passed on the street: "hey do you play basketball?" "no, why?" "because you’re so tall, you look like you’d be good at it!" i hate being a heighthon2021 September 23, @petrichoror, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023
- >tfw 5'10 (literally 98 percentile for white women and 99.9999 percentile for non-white women)
Examples of heighthon in a sentence
- idk how bad my face looks tbh, im trying to fix my face but im a heighthon, im 6'3 💀💀2022 June 7, @AyumuKasugaFan, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2022:
- 5'6 is the average for cis woman. u r bdd. meanwhile im an actual heighthon(174cm)2022 June 29, @silly_boymoder, Twitter:
- Doomed to be a heighthon and get the spices from the top rack myself2023 February 1, @AmooliaGang, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023:
- Nah she's implying anyone over 6' is a heighthon.2023 February 2, @epistemophagy, Twitter:
Forms of heighthon
| plural | heighthons |
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Origin of heighthon
From height + hon (“a trans woman who does not pass”).
Questions about heighthon
- What does heighthon mean?
- Heighthon means a trans woman who is clockable due to being significantly taller than a typical cis woman.
- How do you use heighthon in a sentence?
- idk how bad my face looks tbh, im trying to fix my face but im a heighthon, im 6'3 💀💀
- What part of speech is heighthon?
- Heighthon is a noun.
- What is the plural of heighthon?
- The plural of heighthon is heighthons.
Words near heighthon in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heighthon (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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