How to spell female

Female is spelled F-E-M-A-L-E. It ends in the word male: fe-MALE, with the A-L-E of male.

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What it means: Of the sex that can produce young or lay eggs.

In a sentence: The female cat has a shiny fur coat.

Same family: feminine, woman, girl, male, gender. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Female comes from Old French ‘femelle’, from Latin ‘femella’, a diminutive of ‘femina’ meaning ‘woman’. Interestingly, although it looks like it contains the word ‘male’, historically it is not built from ‘male’ at all—they just ended up looking similar over time.

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