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transfobia

Portuguese, noun

transfobia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “transphobia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “preconceito contra transgêneros”.

What does transfobia mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininetransphobia

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. preconceito contra transgêneros 2. crime que envolve a aversão odiosa à identidade de gênero de alguém

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of transfobia

  • transfobias plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to transfobia

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is transfobia in Portuguese?

transfobia appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).