hebephilia
noun
hebephilia is spelled H-E-B-E-P-H-I-L-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is hebophilia: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Hebephilia is a noun meaning “A sexual preference for adolescent girls”.
How many letters and syllables are in hebephilia?
| Letters | 10: H-E-B-E-P-H-I-L-I-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hebophilia, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell hebephilia?
Hebephilia is spelled H-E-B-E-P-H-I-L-I-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for hebephilia in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is hebephilia?
Hebephilia appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).
How do you pronounce hebephilia?
- 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-hebephilia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does hebephilia mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
datedA sexual preference for adolescent girls.
This finding, if confirmed, may offer a useful lead for research in heterosexual pedophilia or hebephilia (a preference for pubescent girls)
- 2
Adult sexual attraction primarily towards pubescent children and younger adolescents, usually between 10 and 14 years old. Can fall under the same definition as pedophile.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does hebephilia come from?
From hebe- (“relating to youth”) + -philia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).