femcel

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/ˈfɛmˌsɛl/pin pen merger/ˈfɪmˌsɛl/

noun

A female incel.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounfemcel (plural femcels)

plural femcels

  1. incel slangA female incel.

    While male incel culture has been exhaustively analysed, femcels have largely been ignored.

    2020 February 19, Arwa Mahdawi, “Why do we only care about incels when they are men?”, in The Guardian
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    Fiona, a femcel I speak to on Reddit, has a similar outlook on misogyny within the incel community.

    2018 December 5, Nick Chester, “Meet the women of the incel movement”, in Huck

    A “femcel support group” on Facebook, with over 800 members, offers a safe space for women who self-define as involuntarily celibate, […]

    2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page
  2. InternetbroadlyironicsometimesA woman associated with and/or adjacent to the incel aesthetics or other connotations.

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APA

femcel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/femcel

MLA

“femcel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/femcel. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “femcel,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/femcel.

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