bathophobia
/ˌbæθəˈfəʊbiə/
"bathophobia" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bathophobia” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The fear of volumes with large depths such as stairways and deep caves.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bathophobia · bathophobia · English
bathophobia · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 | bathophobia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌbæθəˈfəʊbiə/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bathophobia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bathophobia is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌbæθəˈfəʊbiə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bathophobia in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From batho- + -phobia. The correct English form is bathophobia, spelled B-A-T-H-O-P-H-O-B-I-A.
Definition
- 1The fear of volumes with large depths such as stairways and deep caves.
- 2The fear of depths.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bathophobia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"You're afraid of the dark. That's nyctophobia. And you're afraid of deep places, or depth. That's bathophobia."
Etymology
From batho- + -phobia.
Antonyms
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.