-́fobo
[ˈ́foβ̞o]
The verdict
“-́fobo” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Elemento compositivo que significa "con aversión, repulsión o terror" a lo que indica la primera parte de la palabra.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fobo · -́fobo · Spanish
-́fobo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -́fobo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | [ˈ́foβ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “-́fobo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
-́fobo is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed [ˈ́foβ̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Elemento compositivo que significa "con aversión, repulsión o terror" a lo que indica la primera parte de la palabra.".
No misspelling variants are generated for -́fobo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is -́fobo, spelled --́-F-O-B-O.
Definition
- 1Elemento compositivo que significa "con aversión, repulsión o terror" a lo que indica la primera parte de la palabra.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how -́fobo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
xenófobo (con aversión a lo extranjero).
Antonyms
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.