-phile
\fil\
The verdict
“-phile” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suffixe utilisé pour former un mot correspondant à une notion de passionné, d’ami de, d’amateur de ou d'attirance pour…
Corpus desk
Index FR-phile · -phile · French
-phile · 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 | -phile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | \fil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « -phile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
-phile is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed \fil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for -phile in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is -phile, spelled --P-H-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Suffixe utilisé pour former un mot correspondant à une notion de passionné, d’ami de, d’amateur de ou d'attirance pour…
- 2Suffixe utilisé pour former un mot correspondant à une notion de passionné, d’ami de, d’amateur de ou d'attirance pour…
- 3Suffixe utilisé pour former un mot correspondant à une notion de passionné, d’ami de, d’amateur de ou d'attirance pour…
- 4Suffixe utilisé pour former un mot correspondant à une notion de passionné, d’ami de, d’amateur de ou d'attirance pour…
- 5Qui est favorisé par, qui recherche.
- 6Relatif à une attirance pathologique, à un gout pervers.
- 7Atteint de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how -phile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Anglophile, germanophile, indophile
Bédéphile, minéralophile, tégestophile
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.