bibliophile
"bibliophile" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bibliophile” is uncommon English (frequency #82,095 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,095
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who loves books.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bibliophile · bibliophile · English
bibliophile · rank #82,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,095
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bicentenary
Nearest frequency peer: bicentenary (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “bibliophile”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bellarmine
bellarmine
17,912 corpus weight
- belligerence
belligerence
17,911 corpus weight
- bibliophile
bibliophile
17,906 corpus weight
- bicentenary
bicentenary
17,905 corpus weight
- billow
billow
17,903 corpus weight
- bipartite
bipartite
17,900 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bibliophile” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bibliophile |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bibliophile” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bibliophile is uncommon English at frequency #82,095 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bibliophile in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in 1820. From biblio- + -phile (from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon, “paper, document, tablet”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”)), probably after French bibliophile. The correct English form is bibliophile, spelled B-I-B-L-I-O-P-H-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1One who loves books.
- 2One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
- 3One who loves the Bible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bibliophile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books.
[A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...
Etymology
First attested in 1820. From biblio- + -phile (from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon, “paper, document, tablet”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”)), probably after French bibliophile.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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