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Updated June 2026
A woman or girl; relating to the sex that can bear offspring.
“The female students outnumbered the males in the class.”
/ˈfiː.meɪl/
fe·male
Starts FE-, contains A, E vowels; ends in -ALE.
Worth 11 points; good balance of common letters.
Shorter words formed from the letters in “female”.
7-letter words you can spell by adding one letter to “female”.
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