triskaidekaphobia
/ˌtɹɪskaɪdɛkəˈfəʊbi.ə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Yet, despite beliefs that triskaidekaphobia began long ago and has been passed down through the centuries, the earliest known reference to Friday the 13th as a dreaded day did not appear until 1913. It is merely a 20th century invention."
- "The great Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg had such a severe case of triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13), he omitted numbering the 13th measure in some of his later works, substituting it with the notation “12a.”"
- "There’s even a name to describe the irrational dread of the date: paraskevidekatriaphobia — a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a fear of the number 13."
Etymology
Etymology tree English triskaideka- Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English triskaidekaphobia From triskaideka- (“thirteen”) + -phobia.