fatphobia
noun
fatphobia is a noun meaning “Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-T-P-H-O-B-I-A, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fatphobia mean?
noun
- 1
Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.
Near-synonyms: sizeism, weightism
- 2
Synonym of lipophobia (“fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat”)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fatphobia?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-fatphobia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is fatphobia?
Fatphobia appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).
Fatphobia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fear or dislike towards fat people:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | grossophobie |
| German | Fettphobie, Obesophobie, Adipophobie |
| Portuguese | gordofobia |
| Spanish | gordofobia |
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.