oenophile
/ˈiː.nəʊˌfaɪl/noun
oenophile is spelled O-E-N-O-P-H-I-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is oenaphile: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 91 of all searches for the word. Oenophile is a noun meaning “A person who has a fondness or appreciation for wine”. The plural of oenophile is oenophiles.
How do you spell oenophile?
Oenophile is spelled O-E-N-O-P-H-I-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 91 of the searches for oenophile 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.
What does oenophile mean?
noun
- 1
A person who has a fondness or appreciation for wine.
The oenophile had a large wine cellar stocked with bottles from around the world.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce oenophile?
- /ˈiː.nəʊˌfaɪl/
- /ˈiː.nəˌfaɪl/
Oenophile has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-oenophile.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of oenophile
- oenophiles plural
- enophile
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is oenophile?
Oenophile appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).
Oenophile in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense wine-lover:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | œnophile, vinophile |
| German | Weinliebhaber, Weinkenner, Weinconnaisseur, Vinophiler, Önophiler |
| Portuguese | enófilo |
| Spanish | enófilo |
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 oenophile come from?
From oeno- + -phile.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).