oleophobic
adjective
oleophobic is an adjective meaning “Tending to repel oil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-L-E-O-P-H-O-B-I-C, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does oleophobic mean?
adjective
- 1
Tending to repel oil.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of oleophobic
- more oleophobic comparative
- most oleophobic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is oleophobic?
Oleophobic appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).
Oleophobic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense tending to repel oil:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | oleophob |
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 oleophobic come from?
From oleo- + -phobic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).