paedophile
/ˈpiː.dəˌfaɪl/noun
paedophile is spelled P-A-E-D-O-P-H-I-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is peadophile: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Paedophile is a noun meaning “Commonwealth standard spelling of pedophile”. The plural of paedophile is paedophiles.
How many letters and syllables are in paedophile?
| Letters | 10: P-A-E-D-O-P-H-I-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,912th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, peadophile, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell paedophile?
Paedophile is spelled P-A-E-D-O-P-H-I-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for paedophile 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 paedophile?
Paedophile appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,912th 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 paedophile?
- Australia /ˈpɛ.dəʉˌfɑɪl/
- UK /ˈpiː.dəˌfaɪl/
Paedophile has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-paedophile.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with paedophile?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as paedophile from its last stressed vowel (/idəfaɪl/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of paedophile
- paedophiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does paedophile mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Commonwealth standard spelling of pedophile.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does paedophile come from?
From paedo- + -phile.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).