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Female Equivalent Words Quiz

Based on the male version, guess the female equivalents of these words.
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Last updated: December 21, 2019
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First submittedApril 24, 2012
Times taken165,517
Average score76.7%
Rating4.36
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Male
Female
Man
Woman
Uncle
Aunt
Brother
Sister
Son
Daughter
Husband
Wife
Boy
Girl
Nephew
Niece
His
Her
He
She
King
Queen
Male
Female
Prince
Princess
Lord
Lady
Monk
Nun
Sir
Ma'am
Sir (Knighthood)
Dame
Waiter
Waitress
Duke
Duchess
Baron
Baroness
Hero
Heroine
Headmaster
Headmistress
Male
Female
Incubus
Succubus
Comedian
Comedienne
Lad
Lass
God
Goddess
Masseur
Masseuse
Warlock
Witch
Fraternity
Sorority
Aviator
Aviatrix
Fishmonger
Fishwife
Abbot
Abbess
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Level 66
May 26, 2015
Its is Abbott, not Abbot
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Level 70
Aug 4, 2015
Abbott is a name. Abbot is the title for the person who is the head of a monastery.
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Level 55
Jun 27, 2016
^ Yes. If it was "Abbott", I would have to answer "Costello", and I don't really think he'd appreciate being called a woman.
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Level 50
Mar 23, 2021
When correcting another's spelling, or grammar, there is a 97.4% probability that an equally egregious error will be written within the correction.

"It's" or "It is"...not "Its is"

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Level 65
Jan 13, 2022
That's a very specific statistic. Are you sure it's not 97.5%?
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Level 42
Jun 1, 2015
Nice quiz. Got them all with over 3 mins to spare☺
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Level 70
Aug 4, 2015
For all the people complaining that they want alternative spellings accepted (or perhaps that should be excepted): If I add 1+1 & say the answer is 3, is that acceptable? After all, 3 is almost 2, right? Sheesh! If you're not sure how to spell something, open another tab & type the word you're using into the search box. Nine times out of ten you'll get the correct spelling to pop up w/o even needing to find an online dictionary.
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Level 75
Nov 3, 2016
The problem with that logic is that math facts don't change but spellings do. Also math facts are the same in any language. Language is fluid, there are different translations, spellings change over time, etc. I agree that some of the requests are "out there" but asking for acceptance of things such as labour for labor or proper names in different languages is not unreasonable. Who can say only one way is correct in those instances, regardless of what Google says?
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Level 65
May 14, 2019
I agreed, the logic is faulty. And sometimes the requests are fair. This one being a "wordy one" i would say knowing the correct spelling is important for the answer in this specific quiz. Less so on some other quizzes (for instance difficult names which you never see written only have heard of and have an unexpected double letter somewhere which you cant hear)
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Level 45
Sep 8, 2015
i did not know, nor could i properly guess the last four...good ones! the others came easily to me.
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Level 47
Sep 25, 2015
And I always thought a female lad was a gal.
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Level 56
Oct 26, 2015
That's because you're not British! Lads and lasses. And wouldn't it be guys and gals?!
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Level 69
Sep 26, 2015
I enjoyed this quiz, but I really feel you could have skipped the whole first column, and headed right into the not-utterly-obvious stuff.
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Level 65
May 14, 2019
Some people are not english and some might be kids. Let them have their fun too. There are enough obscure quizzes to indulge in.
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Level 65
Jan 13, 2022
This^!
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Level 36
Dec 19, 2015
Being British, I took 'lad' to mean lad in the context of lad culture, so couldn't think of anything other than 'ladette' - worth adding?! I think it is actually in the dictionary nowadays...
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Level 71
Jan 14, 2017
Obviously a 'Southerner'
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Level 65
Feb 1, 2016
This quiz has the most 100% guessed answers of all the featured quizzes I've seen, yet the average is lower than a lot of other quizzes. Huh.
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Level 47
May 8, 2016
it was easy until the last column
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Level 34
Aug 26, 2016
I don't agree with the opposite of monk being nun. Nuns are specific to the Christian faith iirc. All I kept thinking was Monkess??? monkey??? what???
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Level 52
Nov 3, 2016
Could you consider ladette for lad, it's a Britishism and a product of our drinking culture but non the less in common usage.
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Level 65
Nov 3, 2016
I'm from the UK and I think you're pushing it a lot with "in common usage"! It should be left as it is, no one uses 'Ladette'!
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Level 65
May 14, 2019
I love the word britishism haha :D is that reallybs word? Never heard it before. It looks and sounds funny (the fun way, not the weird way) britishism haha, makes me smile :)
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Level 85
Nov 3, 2016
This quiz is shockingly bigenderist. ;-)
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Level 65
Nov 3, 2016
And here, you can see why we haven't reached gender equality. In my opinion, no words shouls be gendered.
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Level 37
Nov 3, 2016
Why? Because some of us don't wish to deny our femininity, we have failed to reach gender equality? - Gimme a break! If it were that easy, the "gender neutral" folks would all be in the 1%.
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Level 70
Oct 29, 2018
The existence of gendered words does not in itself constitute gender inequality, but it is not hard to see how it is possible for the fact that there are these sorts of words to make unconscious sexism easier. @divant, there are good reasons to believe this sort of thing that don't involve transgender or gender-neutral people. Imagine if every time you were referred to and quite a large proportion of the time you were described the speaker implicitly stated how tall you were. You would be entirely justified in thinking it should not be the case. And you wouldn't agree with someone saying "I don't want to deny my tallness (or shortness or medium-height, depending on your height). It doesn't mean we're not height-equal. Gimme a break!" and then making some comment about the rarity of height-neutral people. I think Elan has a strong point, although how this might come about is beyond me unless we stop speaking English.
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Level 82
May 13, 2019
1. In the United States and most Western countries, we actually have achieved gender equality. If anything women are substantially more privileged than men at this point. But legally and in terms of opportunity we are already and have been at full gender equality.

2. Even if we weren't, gendered words would have nothing to do with that.

3. The fact that people are confused in to thinking that it might have something to do with it is part of why so many out there are still angry about male privilege and the patriarchy when their rage is unnecessary, misguided, and ultimately counter-productive.

If you want to know the sorts of things that actually contribute toward real gender inequality you can talk to me sometime about the six years I spent living in Saudi Arabia, a country full of women who are treated as property but casually thrown under the bus by Western "feminists" all the time in the name of cultural sensitivity.

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Level 28
May 30, 2019
I heard on the radio last month that one percent of investment bankers are women, and that even less than one percent of investment decisions (or was it dollars) made by investment bankers are investments in female owned companies. If you’re a female seeking investments in your business, a female investment banker ... or perhaps a member of other groups like women in tech, or women in Missouri, .... you may not be ready to concede equality yet, even if you’re not claiming oppression akin to that Saudi Arabian women endure.
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Level 82
Sep 15, 2019
equality of opportunity does not translate into equality of outcomes. Fewer women WANT to be investment bankers. We should EXPECT to see a tiny percentage of female investment bankers. If we start seeing a 50/50 parity, that would mean something in the system was broken and unequal. In the same way that Harvard now discriminates against Asian applicants because they get too many of them, and many many many industries and institutions now discriminate, openly and unashamedly, against "white" men. Which is awful. But commonplace. And they're trying to force women in to certain jobs and positions that most of them don't even want. Being a CEO or politician doesn't mean you are privileged. It probably means you are a psychopath. Those are the sorts of people who excel at those jobs. And more men suffer from psychopathy than women. Also men have more pressure to succeed and be financially independent because they are seen as valueless to potential mates if they do not.
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Level 82
Sep 15, 2019
"Success" can be a burden. Is all you want out of life to make money? Or do you want to be happy, content, and have all your basic needs met? If you want to see a really good indication of privilege you ought to look at these 3 metrics:

1. suicide success rate

2. homelessness rate

3. how many right swipes you get on Tinder

not salary. not representation in Congress. The former represents pressure to be self-sufficient, increased stress, and often isolation and depression. The latter represents like I said psychopathy or narcissism.

But the 3 metrics I gave above are perfect for painting a whole picture of just how privileged an individual is in a society in terms of how well their basic needs are being met. And, incidentally, taken together these 3 metrics would show that gays and especially transgender people are at the bottom of the privilege list. Some minorities or disabled also suffer in one or two areas. But women in the US are on top of all 3 lists.

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Level 82
Sep 15, 2019
If you want to port my metrics to Saudi Arabia, women there are much more likely to commit suicide than men, they are also much more likely to be homeless, and if one of them gets on Tinder they are as likely to be murdered by their own family as they are to find a date.
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Level 82
Sep 15, 2019
And even if none of what I said is true... "gendered" pronouns are not oppression. Income inequality? sure. Maybe. But not the same thing.
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Level 78
Sep 15, 2019
Ah yes, the classic heroic struggle of feminism for investment banking.
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Level 77
Jan 8, 2022
This is so cringe. Seriously? Right swipes on Tinder? Nothing makes you sound like an incel quite like saying women have achieved equality because men might express sexual attraction on a dating app. And using “suicide completion” is cherry picking; Western men are statistically more likely to use final means in an attempt than women for societal and cultural reasons that are likely very nuanced. It’s also laughable to say “success” isn’t a good indicator of equality… yeah, I’d think most women would want options and influence more than being swipable on Tinder. Anyway, your reasoning is all based on just your general hunches of the world, which are based only on how YOU feel about your own life experiences. The UN ranks the US 46th on the Gender Inequality Index… you know, based on empirical data and not general hunches, so even your argument that the US has equality seems pretty easy to disprove.
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Level 65
Jan 13, 2022
I think Kal is right on the money with his comments here. You can't judge equality by outcome based statistics. It doesn't reveal discrimination because you can't separate out the desire for those roles by each gender.
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Level 82
Mar 17, 2022
name checks out
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Level 77
Jun 23, 2023
Shouldn't you be babysitting X Æ A-12?
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Level 74
Jan 29, 2024
That's a whole lot of tosh, even by your standards, kalbutternut. Thanks for the entertainment.
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Level 74
Sep 15, 2019
I hadn't played this game since Aug of 2016 so I thought it was time to read through the comments looking for the person that went there because there is always at least one. You know you have no real problems and have reached true equality when THIS is your fight. If only the modern feminist knew what inequality really was we wouldn't have to hear about butchering words that have been around for centuries to appease a small group of social justice warriors.
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Level 65
Jan 13, 2022
Gender equality, what does that even mean? Gender based words are a way to be specific about what you are talking about. The more we "cancel" words that offend people, the more confusing it will be to have a conversation as we won't be able to use specific details to be clear.
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Level 34
Nov 4, 2016
Great Quiz! Thanks :)
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Level 57
Nov 4, 2016
It should be His / Hers, or Him / Her. It's simple anyway, but technically incorrect.
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Level 60
Aug 16, 2020
The quiz is correct.
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Level 16
Dec 30, 2016
Is it weird that playing pokemon games helped me get the female word for Lad
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Level 53
Mar 9, 2017
Hey QM, add midwife

Male - Accoucheur

Female - Accoucheuse

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Level 54
Apr 29, 2017
I thought the male version of witch was wizard, don't remember hearing warlock.
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Level 46
Jun 20, 2017
I didn't get fishwife. I never heard of it before.
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Level 47
Jul 9, 2017
masseus should be accepted
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Level 61
May 31, 2018
Please accept mann't for woman.
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Level 88
Oct 29, 2018
Oh the huge manatee
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Level 30
Jun 1, 2018
I need to find myself a flyingfishwife hehehe
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Level 35
Jul 8, 2018
...not much differentiation these days what with political correctness and all...
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Level 71
Jul 8, 2018
1926 documentary showing Fishwives and fishermen towing a Lifeboat through town and then collecting money for the Lifeboat Association ......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0masd4QmJo
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Level 20
Oct 29, 2018
@Quizmaster I really do feel like you should change her to hers and write possessive next to his to show that the equivalent is hers. You know, like those sets of two anything, like, towels, that say "His" and "Hers"? Anyway, other then that, fun quiz!
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Level 70
Oct 30, 2018
"Her" is also perfectly correct and if you try "hers" you get the right answer without even having to type the last letter.
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Level 79
Feb 20, 2019
Wrote 'aviatorix' instead of 'aviatrix'...
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Level 67
Mar 28, 2019
On your quiz it has "Her" as the answer for "Him"

Her = Him

Hers = His

plz fix

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Level 36
Apr 8, 2019
Why did you (quizmaker) add a French word (masseur) in an English Section quiz?
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Level 84
Apr 24, 2019
Masseur is an English word. Half of the English language comes from French.
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Level 82
May 13, 2019
English and in fact all languages (but especially English) is full of loan words.
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Level 67
May 13, 2019
I feel really good for getting aviatrix. Don't really remember where I learned that from.
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Level 72
May 14, 2019
Fishwife?...
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Level 23
May 31, 2019
Interesting. I've never heard anyone use "Comedienne" to describe a female comedian.
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Level 44
Sep 15, 2019
I agree, the only appropriate word for that is "not funny"
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Level 82
Sep 16, 2019
That's not funny.
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Level 44
Sep 20, 2019
No, it's not. Only the sad truth.
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Level 24
Sep 30, 2019
guess youre a female comedian then
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Level 82
Aug 4, 2020
There are plenty of funny comediennes.
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Level 72
Feb 8, 2020
I agree, this is strange to me; female comedians are comedians who are female. A comedienne is a (French) actress, however of course in English actresses are no longer actresses, they are actors. So a comedienne is a (French) actor who is female.
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Level 82
Aug 4, 2020
I have.
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Level 63
Jul 30, 2019
Some of these are outdated, such as comedienne. All people who perform stand-up comedy are called comedians now - gender is irrelevant. Same goes for waiter, hero and actor. You don't have actor/actress on this quiz, but perhaps you could remove some of these as a sign of the times?
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Level 61
Sep 15, 2019
"All people"? that's kind of a broad stroke. I, (who am a people), use the correct gendered forms of the ones you would cast aside.
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Level 63
Sep 16, 2019
Same here. These aren't outdated at all.
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Level 82
Sep 16, 2019
I've seen actresses called actors frequently now, but I thought waiter/waitress was simply being abandoned in favor of server, and steward/stewardess dropped for flight attendant. Police man/woman -> police officer. Fireman/woman -> fire fighter. Though I've got no problem with gendered job titles, the differences in human gender should be celebrated not ignored, even while full legal equality should be guaranteed.
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Level 22
Sep 17, 2019
I love that you have a problem with waitress but not fishwife
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Level 51
Sep 15, 2019
I didn't realise there was a female equivalent of comedian, aviator or fishmonger. I thought they were somewhat gender-neutral.
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Level 79
Feb 20, 2023
I believe those three words are now mainly used in a gender-neutral way.
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Level 47
Sep 15, 2019
I think guy to gal should be on here
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Level 22
Sep 17, 2019
3:34 to go. Boom!
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Level 69
Oct 27, 2019
What is an Incubus 🤔
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Level 43
Jan 11, 2022
According to Britannica, Incubus is a demon in male form that seeks to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women.
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Level 60
Nov 8, 2019
I would say a nun is more the woman equivalent of a brother in the Catholic religion, where monk is more unisex.
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Level 29
Nov 9, 2019
Why does it say 50% on answers answered only once?
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Level 32
Jul 22, 2020
I also am curious about that @StimulatedStoic.
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Level 43
May 13, 2021
"This beats or equals 2.2% of test takers" ouch, I gotta perfect a little my English.
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Level 74
Aug 24, 2021
Fraternity isn't only "a male student organization", it also has a meaning "the quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood". So would you please accept "sisterhood"?
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Level 77
Jan 8, 2022
Sisterhood would line up to brotherhood, though.
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Level 29
Dec 9, 2021
so sexist.
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Level 79
Feb 20, 2023
You're joking surely
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Level 76
Dec 27, 2021
The only reason I got Succubus was because of the 'Burbs. When Art was reading out of the book to Ray, he made it seem like they were two entirely different types of demons. Until this quiz, I now know they are male and female versions.
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Level 57
Jan 8, 2022
male witches exist
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Level 57
Jan 8, 2022
Yeah, they're called warlocks
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Level 48
Jan 9, 2022
I'm pretty happy getting 27/30 as a non-native English speaker. Missed warlock, aviator and fishmonger. I had no idea what warlock actually meant, thought the word for it would just be "wizard". Aviatrix is a super cool sounding word though!
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Level 67
Feb 3, 2022
Lovely quiz, delightfully anachronistic, I must say. Every time I hear the word "headmistress," I am reminded of a funny bit from Roald Dahl's "Matilda." A little boy responds to the nasty lady who runs the school, saying, "Dash it all, Headmistress!" Meanwhile, "fishwife!" So many times after the conclusion of a parent-teacher conference with a particularly nasty mother, I'd see her out, smiling on the outside; on the way back to my desk, I'd be thinking along the lines of, "Farewell, fishwife!"
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Level 44
Mar 18, 2022
you got one wrong, there isnt a female word for comedian
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Level 76
Nov 22, 2023
I mean, there is, though. It's been largely phased out as unnecessary, like many gendered words pertaining to jobs, but the word still definitely exists.
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Level 31
Jun 23, 2022
Fishwife lol
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Level 79
Feb 20, 2023
I thought it was 'fisherwife'!
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Level 48
Feb 1, 2024
without amilia earheart, aviatrix would have probably been under 10%, also godess (singular d) should be accepted