russophobia
noun
russophobia is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of Russophobia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-S-S-O-P-H-O-B-I-A, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does russophobia mean?
noun
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Alternative spelling of Russophobia.
noun
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Contempt or hatred towards Russia or Russians, especially the political system, or the customs of the former Soviet Union.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce russophobia?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Russophobia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is russophobia?
Russophobia appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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).
Russophobia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the fear or hatred of Russia or Russians:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | russophobie |
| German | Russophobie |
| Portuguese | russofobia |
| Spanish | rusofobia |
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 russophobia come from?
From Russo- + -phobia, c. 1836. See also Russian русофобия (rusofobija).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).