-phob
[foːp]
The verdict
“-phob” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement mit der Bedeutung: gegenüber einer Sache abweisend, abgeneigt oder eine Sache fürchtend
Corpus desk
Index DE-phob · -phob · German
-phob · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- 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 | -phob |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | [foːp] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „-phob“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
-phob is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed [foːp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement mit der Bedeutung: gegenüber einer Sache abweisend, abgeneigt oder eine Sache fürchtend".
No generated misspelling entries exist for -phob in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 -phob, spelled --P-H-O-B.
Definition
- 1nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement mit der Bedeutung: gegenüber einer Sache abweisend, abgeneigt oder eine Sache fürchtend
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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.