xenófobo

Name: xenófobo, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

adj

By PlainSpell Editorial Team · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“xenófobo” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #64,569 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.

#64,569
frequency rank, Portuguese: 8
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que tem aversão ao que é estrangeiro

Key facts for xenófobo
Property	Value
Headword	xenófobo
Language	Portuguese
Part of speech	Adjective
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#64,569
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “xenófobo” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). xenófobo lands here:

#64,569

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for xenófobo is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #64,569 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que tem aversão ao que é estrangeiro".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for xenófobo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is xenófobo, spelled X-E-N-Ó-F-O-B-O.

Definition

1
que tem aversão ao que é estrangeiro

Synonyms

xenofóbico

Antonyms

xenófilo

This word in other languages

xenophobe(English)xenófobo(Español)xénophobe(Français)

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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "xenófobo"?

"xenófobo" is spelled X-E-N-Ó-F-O-B-O.

What does "xenófobo" mean?

As an adjective, "xenófobo" means: que tem aversão ao que é estrangeiro

What language does "xenófobo" come from?

"xenófobo" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Using “xenófobo”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct Portuguese spelling is X-E-N-Ó-F-O-B-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.