fobia social
[ˈfoβ̞ja soˈsjal]
The verdict
“fobia social” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Miedo irracional y enfermizo a los encuentros sociales. Temor de ser rechazado, perseguido o evaluado, entre otras situaciones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fobia social |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfoβ̞ja soˈsjal] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fobia social” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fobia social is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoβ̞ja soˈsjal]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Miedo irracional y enfermizo a los encuentros sociales. Temor de ser rechazado, perseguido o evaluado, entre otras situaciones.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fobia social in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is fobia social, spelled F-O-B-I-A- -S-O-C-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Miedo irracional y enfermizo a los encuentros sociales. Temor de ser rechazado, perseguido o evaluado, entre otras situaciones.
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 “fobia social”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-O-B-I-A- -S-O-C-I-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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