filipinx

/fɪ.ləˈpin.ɛks/

filipinx means filipina or Filipino (and any gender).

filipinx is pronounced /fɪ.ləˈpin.ɛks/.

Etymology

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”).

adj

Filipina or Filipino (and any gender).e.g.“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:

noun

A Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).

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Words closest in meaning

By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.

filipina 77% match — Of or pertaining to female citizens or local inhabitants of the Philippines. vs filipinx →
pinay 74% match — A Filipina; a citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines, and those descending from such, who is female. vs filipinx →
filo 70% match — A Filipino. vs filipinx →
filipiniana 68% match — Cultural things relating to the Philippines. vs filipinx →
philippinize 65% match — To make Filipino. vs filipinx →
philippine 65% match — Of or pertaining to the Philippines. vs filipinx →
philippinization 65% match — The act or process of making something Filipino. vs filipinx →
filipinize 64% match — To make something into a Filipino. vs filipinx →