anglophile
noun
anglophile is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Anglophile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-G-L-O-P-H-I-L-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anglophile is anglophiles.
What does anglophile mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Anglophile.
noun
- 1
A person who loves or admires the country, culture or people of England.
- 2
A person who loves or admires the country, culture or people of the United Kingdom.
adjective
- 1
English loving; admiring English culture.
- 2
British-loving; admiring British culture.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anglophile?
Anglophile has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anglophile
- anglophiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anglophile?
Anglophile appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anglophile in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who loves or admires the country, culture or people of England:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anglophile |
| German | Anglophiler, Anglophile, Englandfreund, Englandfreundin, Englandliebhaber, Englandliebhaberin |
| Portuguese | anglófilo, anglófila |
| Spanish | anglófilo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does anglophile come from?
From Anglo- + -phile, probably partly after French anglophile.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).