Question

Identify the feminine form of the noun:
Fiance
a) Fiancess
b) Fiancee
c) Fiance
d) fiancine

Answer 1

Hint:Fiance is a French word with masculine gender. The English words with French origin are mostly converted to the opposite gender by adding a suffix.

Complete answer:
Fiance means a man to whom someone is engaged to be married. This word used in a sentence is like: "My fiance and I were childhood sweethearts." So the feminine of this word would mean ‘a woman to whom someone is engaged to be married’.
Now, we know that under most of the circumstances, there are three major ways to convert a masculine noun to its feminine counterpart. The first one is: change to a completely different word ( eg. Father-Mother). The second one is by adding a suitable syllable suffix (—ess, —ine, —trix, —a, etc.), eg. Poet-Poetess. And the third one accounts for the substitution of a feminine word for masculine in compound words, like Milk-man - Milk-maid.
We take help from the hint above and conclude that the word in question ‘Fiance’ will be converted to feminine by adding a suitable suffix.
Option ‘a’, fiancess, we know is not a correct word in the English language, hence the first option is incorrect.
Option b is the correct answer as the suffix ‘e’ is added to the root word-making ‘fiancee’ the feminine of ‘fiance’.
Option c is incorrect as it is the same word as given in the question.
Option d, again, like option b, is not a legitimate word in English, hence this option is also ruled out.

Note:
 All the options have a very mild difference in their spellings so be very careful while reading the options.