-philie
[fiˈliː]
The verdict
“-philie” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement, das eine Affinität, eine Neigung zu etwas ausdrückt
Corpus desk
Index DE-philie · -philie · German
-philie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -philie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | [fiˈliː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „-philie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
-philie is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed [fiˈliː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement, das eine Affinität, eine Neigung zu etwas ausdrückt".
No generated misspelling entries exist for -philie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is -philie, spelled --P-H-I-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement, das eine Affinität, eine Neigung zu etwas ausdrückt
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.