homophile
\o.mo.fil\
The verdict
“homophile” 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) - Qualifie une relation entre des personnes qui partagent des points communs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-homophile · homophile · French
homophile · 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 "H" 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 | homophile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \o.mo.fil\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
homophile is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \o.mo.fil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for homophile in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is homophile, spelled H-O-M-O-P-H-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une relation entre des personnes qui partagent des points communs.
- 2Homosexuel.
- 3[En parlant d’une personne] Qui a de la sympathie ou de la bienveillance pour les personnes homosexuelles.
- 4[En parlant d’un animal] Qui a une attirance pathologique pour les êtres humains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homophile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mouvement homophile.
— Il y a des vétérinaires psychiatres, dis-je, on met la truie sur un divan… — Une truie sur un divan ? Vous voyez ça ? — Et tant qu’à faire, pour le chien, il vous fera un prix. — Ça réussit toujours ces trucs, dit le second. — C’est vrai, y en a qui deviennent homophiles, dit le troisième.
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