-philous
"philous" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“-philous” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - having an affinity, attraction, preference or love of something
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -philous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “-philous” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
-philous is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "having an affinity, attraction, preference or love of something".
No generated misspelling entries exist for -philous in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “love”) + -ous. The correct English form is -philous, spelled --P-H-I-L-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1having an affinity, attraction, preference or love of something
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “love”) + -ous.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “-philous”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is --P-H-I-L-O-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.