aibohphobia
/aɪ.bəʊˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The article was a disservice to those of us who are unfortunate enough to be afflicted with aibohphobia."
- "We trust that we've relieved any Aibohphobia, any fear of palindromes that you might have harbored."
- "If you suffer from aibohphobia (fear of palindromes) you should skip a few pages while the rest of us go in search of[…]"
- "We hope, however, that in passing this on we don't provoke any attacks of aibohphobia among our readers. This pallindrome, as Alan Lane discovered, means "an abnormal and persistent fear of pallindromes"."
Etymology
Deliberately constructed to be a palindrome, combining the suffix -phobia with its reversed spelling. First appeared as a response to National Challenge #36, in a newspaper column written by J Baxter Newgate. The challenge was to invent a phobia. The column did not identify the entrant. (Source: Orlando Sentinel, Oct 22, 1977)