paedophilia
noun
paedophilia is a noun meaning “UK standard spelling of pedophilia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-E-D-O-P-H-I-L-I-A, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paedophilia is paedophilias.
What does paedophilia mean?
noun
- 1
UK standard spelling of pedophilia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce paedophilia?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-paedophilia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of paedophilia
- paedophilias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paedophilia?
Paedophilia appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th 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).
Where does paedophilia come from?
From paedo- + -philia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).