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Anabaptism

/ænəˈbæptɪzm/noun

Anabaptism is spelled A-N-A-B-A-P-T-I-S-M: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Anabaptism means “The doctrine espoused by Anabaptists” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Anabaptism is Anabaptisms.

How many letters and syllables are in Anabaptism?

Letters10: A-N-A-B-A-P-T-I-S-M
In writingabout once in every 36 million words; the 184,844th 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 Anabaptism?

Anabaptism appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).

How do you pronounce Anabaptism?

  • /ænəˈbæptɪzm/

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

Forms of Anabaptism

  • Anabaptisms plural

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

What does Anabaptism mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The doctrine espoused by Anabaptists.

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

Anabaptism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense doctrine of Anabaptists:

LanguageWords
Frenchanabaptisme
GermanTäuferbewegung, Anabaptismus, Wiedertäuferlehre
Portugueseanabatismo
Spanishanabaptismo

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.

Where does Anabaptism come from?

From Latin anabaptismus, from ecclesiastical Koine Greek ἀναβαπτισμός (anabaptismós), from ἀνα- (ana-, “re-”) + βαπτισμός (baptismós, “baptism”) (compare modern Greek αναβαπτισμός (anavaptismós)); cognate with French anabaptisme. See anabaptize.

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

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