transphobe
noun
transphobe is a noun meaning “A person who fears, hates or is prejudiced against transgender or transsexual people, or gender-nonconforming people in general; one who exhibits…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-H-O-B-E, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of transphobe is transphobes.
What does transphobe mean?
noun
- 1
A person who fears, hates or is prejudiced against transgender or transsexual people, or gender-nonconforming people in general; one who exhibits transphobia.
The object of scorn in the films are not transpersons, but the bigoted transphobes who are made to look like fools.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of transphobe
- transphobes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is transphobe?
Transphobe 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).
Transphobe in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person who fears or hates trans people:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | transphobe |
| German | Transphober, Transphobe, Transfeind |
| Portuguese | transfóbico, transfóbica |
| Spanish | tránsfobo, tránsfoba, transfóbico, transfóbica |
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 transphobe come from?
From trans- + -phobe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).