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biphobia

/ˈbaɪˌfoʊbi.ə/noun

biphobia is a noun meaning “Antipathy towards bisexuals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-I-P-H-O-B-I-A, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does biphobia mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Antipathy towards bisexuals.

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

How do you pronounce biphobia?

  • UK /ˈbaɪˌfəʊbiːə/
  • US /ˈbaɪˌfoʊbi.ə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-biphobia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is biphobia?

Biphobia appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th 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).

Biphobia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense fear, dislike, or hate of bisexuals:

LanguageWords
Frenchbiphobie
GermanBiphobie, Bifeindlichkeit
Portuguesebifobia
Spanishbifobia

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 biphobia come from?

From bi- + -phobia.

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