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anglophobia

noun

anglophobia is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Anglophobia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-G-L-O-P-H-O-B-I-A, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does anglophobia mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Anglophobia.

noun

as Anglophobia
  1. 1

    The hatred or fear of England and anything English (or British).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is anglophobia?

Anglophobia appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).

Anglophobia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense hatred or fear of England or anything English:

LanguageWords
Frenchanglophobie
GermanAnglophobie, Englandhass
Portugueseanglofobia
Spanishanglofobia

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 anglophobia come from?

From Anglo- + -phobia.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).