transphobe
\tʁɑ̃s.fɔb\
The verdict
“transphobe” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,924
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Relatif à de l’aversion, de l’attitude hostile ou du rejet à l’encontre des personnes transgenres ou transsexuelles, ou de la transidentité.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transphobe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.fɔb\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “transphobe” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around transphobe (IPA \tʁɑ̃s.fɔb\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,924 among 164,488 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à de l’aversion, de l’attitude hostile ou du rejet à l’encontre des personnes transgenres ou transsexuelles, ou de la transidentité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for transphobe, with forms such as "rtansphobe", "tarnsphobe", and "trannsphobe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "transposé", "transphobie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is transphobe, spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-H-O-B-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à de l’aversion, de l’attitude hostile ou du rejet à l’encontre des personnes transgenres ou transsexuelles, ou de la transidentité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtansphobe
- tarnsphobe
- trannsphobe
- tranpshobe
- transhpobe
- transphboe
- transphhobe
- transphobbe
- transphoeb
- transpohbe
- transpphobe
- transsphobe
- trasnphobe
- trnasphobe
- trransphobe
- ttransphobe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of transphobe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “transphobe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-A-N-S-P-H-O-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁɑ̃s.fɔb\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “transposé” - see the side-by-side comparison. transphobe vs transposé
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.