genophobe

noun

"genophobe" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“genophobe” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse

Corpus desk

Index EN-genophobe · genophobe · English

genophobe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "G" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for genophobe
PropertyValue
Headwordgenophobe
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “genophobe” in English

genophobesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

genophobe is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse".

genophobe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: From geno- + -phobe. The correct English form is genophobe, spelled G-E-N-O-P-H-O-B-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how genophobe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Genophobes have been informed about the birds and the bees, but they don’t like (or aren’t cocksure about) what they’ve heard and tend to go catatonic when beyond the platonic.
  2. Like what happens when the genophobes try to censor video rental stores. THEN people get outraged. And say fuck off.

Etymology

From geno- + -phobe.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "genophobe"?
"genophobe" is spelled G-E-N-O-P-H-O-B-E.
What does "genophobe" mean?
As a noun, "genophobe" means: A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse
What is the origin of the word "genophobe"?
From geno- + -phobe. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list