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pediculophobia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pedicu-lo-pho-bia
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A morbid fear of lice.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Latin pēdīculus (“louse”) + -phobia.

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Questions

What does pediculophobia mean?
A morbid fear of lice.
Where does pediculophobia come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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