xenófobo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for xenófobo is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seˈnofoβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,081 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Que tiene prejuicios con recelo u odio o fobia o rechazo contra los extranjeros, o, en general, contra los grupos étnicos diferentes, o contra personas cuya fisionomía social y cultural se desconoce.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for xenófobo, with forms such as "exnófobo", "xenfóobo", and "xennófobo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "xenófobos", "xenofobia", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 xenófobo, spelled X-E-N-Ó-F-O-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.