allophobe

\a.lo.fɔb\

/\a.lo.fɔb\/ adj

The verdict

“allophobe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’aversion envers l’altérité ou à une attitude hostile à l’égard des personnes appartenant à une autre culture ou une autre religion.

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Index FR-allophobe · allophobe · French

allophobe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" 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.

Key facts for allophobe
PropertyValue
Headwordallophobe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.lo.fɔb\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « allophobe » en français

allophobereste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

allophobe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.lo.fɔb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à l’aversion envers l’altérité ou à une attitude hostile à l’égard des personnes appartenant à une autre culture ou une autre religion.".

allophobe has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is allophobe, spelled A-L-L-O-P-H-O-B-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à l’aversion envers l’altérité ou à une attitude hostile à l’égard des personnes appartenant à une autre culture ou une autre religion.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how allophobe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L'actualité récente, tournée en France sur l'immigration et les sans papiers comme supports d'une propagande allophobe, entre en résonance avec le succès croissant des nationalistes hindous.
  2. De facto, elle favorise la porosité et l'échange entre cette doctrine d'un nationalisme européen allophobe (xénophobe, islamophobe, anti-Roms et antisémite, notamment) et le cosmopolitisme modérément ouvert à l'altérité, quoique conservateur dans les mœurs, […].

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "allophobe"?
"allophobe" is spelled A-L-L-O-P-H-O-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.lo.fɔb\.
What does "allophobe" mean?
As an adjective, "allophobe" means: Relatif à l’aversion envers l’altérité ou à une attitude hostile à l’égard des personnes appartenant à une autre culture ou une autre religion.
How do you pronounce "allophobe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "allophobe" is \a.lo.fɔb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "allophobe" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list