triskaidekaphobia
/ˌtɹɪskaɪdɛkəˈfəʊbi.ə/noun
triskaidekaphobia is spelled T-R-I-S-K-A-I-D-E-K-A-P-H-O-B-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is tricadecaphobia: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 68 of all searches for the word. Triskaidekaphobia is a noun meaning “Fear or dislike of the number thirteen (13)”.
How do you spell triskaidekaphobia?
Triskaidekaphobia is spelled T-R-I-S-K-A-I-D-E-K-A-P-H-O-B-I-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 68 of the searches for triskaidekaphobia 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.
What does triskaidekaphobia mean?
noun
- 1
Fear or dislike of the number thirteen (13).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce triskaidekaphobia?
- /ˌtɹɪskaɪdɛkəˈfəʊbi.ə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-triskaidekaphobia.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of triskaidekaphobia
- treiskaidekaphobia
- triskaidecaphobia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is triskaidekaphobia?
Triskaidekaphobia appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).
Triskaidekaphobia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fear or dislike of the number 13:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | triskaidékaphobie |
| German | Triskaidekaphobie |
| Portuguese | triscaidecafobia |
| Spanish | triscaidecafobia |
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 triskaidekaphobia come from?
From triskaideka- (“thirteen”) + -phobia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).