bibliophobe
\bi.bli.jo.fɔb\
The verdict
“bibliophobe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui déteste les livres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bibliophobe · bibliophobe · French
bibliophobe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | bibliophobe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bi.bli.jo.fɔb\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bibliophobe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bi.bli.jo.fɔb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui déteste les livres.".
bibliophobe has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bibliophobe, spelled B-I-B-L-I-O-P-H-O-B-E.
Definition
- 1Qui déteste les livres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bibliophobe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous causons, nous rions, ce journaliste, bibliophobe à jeun, veut, quand il est ivre, que je donne à ma langue la sotte allure d’un livre (il feignit de pleurer).
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.