Meanings
- not comparablerareFilipina or Filipino (and any gender).
[…] 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 231 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- SpanishFilipinas“Philippines”
- Spanishfilipino
- Spanishfilipina
- EnglishFilipinx
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”).
More words from Spanish
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Filipinx. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Filipinx
“Filipinx.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Filipinx. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Filipinx,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Filipinx.
Source: Filipinx on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.