What's Your Phobia?

Desertrat89

Updated May 15, 2024 262.9K views 36 items

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26.5K voters

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Vote up your crippling fears

This is a list of the most common phobias, ranked by people who find these things incapacitating. These popular fears can paralyze you or are incontrollable - no matter what logic tells you. Do you have any of these? Common phobias include aracnophobia (fear of spiders), acrophobia (fear of heights), and aviophobia (fear of flying), though there is no end to the number of things people can be afraid of. If your phobia isn't listed, add it, or press rerank to make your own list of the things you find most threatening. Let's find out the most common phobia. Vote and add! If you just want to vote on things that scare you, but aren't phobias, check out this list.

Most divisive: Necrophobia

Over 26.5K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of What's Your Phobia?

1
16,483 votes
Thalassophobia
Fear of deep water
2
16,901 votes
Arachnophobia
Fear of spiders
3
5,208 votes
Cleithrophobia
Fear of Being Trapped
4
15,894 votes
Claustrophobia
Fear of enclosed spaces
5
16,172 votes
Acrophobia
Extreme or irrational fear of heights
6
12,345 votes
Pnigophobia
Fear of suffocating
7
11,920 votes
Atelophobia
Fear of not being good enough or imperfect
8
14,215 votes
Glossophobia
Fear of public speaking
9
14,549 votes
Necrophobia
Fear of death
10
10,316 votes
Pisanthrophobia
Fear of trusting people due to bad past experiences

11
13,071 votes
Galeophobia
Fear of sharks
12
4,338 votes
Thanatophobia
Fear of dying
13
3,108 votes
Autophobia
Fear of abandonment
14
13,134 votes
Entomophobia
Fear of insects
15
12,755 votes
Achluophobia
Fear of the dark
16
7,939 votes
Katsaridaphobia
Fear of cockroaches
17
6,614 votes
Nuclearphobia
Fear of nuclear war
18
13,770 votes
Ophidiophobia
Fear of snakes
19
10,849 votes
Katagelophobia
Fear of being ridiculed
20
12,640 votes
Coulrophobia
Fear of clowns

21
13,328 votes
Trypanophobia
Fear of Needles
22
11,099 votes
Aviophobia
Fear of flying
23
2,471 votes
Trypophobia
Fear of holes
24
2,941 votes
Mentophobia
Fear of going insane
25
10,704 votes
Agoraphobia
Fear of wide open spaces
26
11,392 votes
Dentophobia
Fear of the dentist
27
9,653 votes
Emetophobia
Fear of vomiting
28
2,779 votes
Phobophobia
Fear of phobias, the fear of being struck by your fear in a totally unsuitable moment
29
1,787 votes
Megalophobia
Fear of large objects
30
7,192 votes
Mysophobia
Fear of contamination and germs