# homophobia

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ · frequency rank #18,580

## Definitions
1. Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.
2. Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards LGBT+ persons in general.
3. Deliberate misspelling of heterochromia.

## Etymology
From homo- (short for and prefix of homosexual) + -phobia. Coined by American psychologist George Weinberg in 1971 in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

## Easily confused with
- **homophobic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/homophobia-vs-homophobic)
- **homophobe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/homophobe-vs-homophobia)

## Common misspellings (14)
`hhomophobia`, `hmoophobia`, `hommophobia`, `homohpobia`, `homophboia`, `homophhobia`, `homophobai`, `homophobbia`, `homophoiba`, `homopohbia`, `homopphobia`, `hompohobia`, `hoomphobia`, `ohmophobia`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/homophobia