phallus
/ˈfæləs/noun
phallus is spelled P-H-A-L-L-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is phallace: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 68 of all searches for the word. Phallus is a noun meaning “A penis, especially when erect”. The plural of phallus is phalli or phalluses.
How many letters and syllables are in phallus?
| Letters | 7: P-H-A-L-L-U-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 51,738th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, phallace, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell phallus?
Phallus is spelled P-H-A-L-L-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 69 of the searches for phallus 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 phallus?
Phallus appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,738th 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 phallus?
- /ˈfæləs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-phallus.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of phallus
- phalli plural
- phalluses plural
- phallos
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does phallus mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A penis, especially when erect.
- 2
A representation of an erect penis, especially symbolising fertility or potency.
- 3
The signifier of the desire of the Other, and the signifier of jouissance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Phallus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the penis or its representation:
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 phallus come from?
Borrowed from Latin phallus (“membrum virile, phallus, or a figure thereof”), from Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).