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Alawite

noun

Alawite is spelled A-L-A-W-I-T-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 79,518th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Alawite means “A member of a mystical Shiite Islamic group that reveres Ali” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Alawite is Alawites.

How many letters and syllables are in Alawite?

Letters7: A-L-A-W-I-T-E
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 79,518th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Alawite?

Alawite appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 79,518th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of Alawite

  • Alawites plural
  • Alaouite

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Alawite mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A member of a mystical Shiite Islamic group that reveres Ali.

  2. 2

    A person raised in the Alawite culture.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Alawite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchalaouite
GermanAlawit, Alawitin
Portuguesealauíta, alawita

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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