antiauthoritarian

adj

"antiauthoritarian" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“antiauthoritarian” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
17
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opposed to authoritarianism

Corpus desk

Index EN-antiauthoritarian · antiauthoritarian · English

antiauthoritarian · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 17 letters
  • VOW-9 9 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for antiauthoritarian
PropertyValue
Headwordantiauthoritarian
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “antiauthoritarian” in English

antiauthoritarianranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

antiauthoritarian is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for antiauthoritarian in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Etymologically, the entry records: From anti- + authoritarian. The correct English form is antiauthoritarian, spelled A-N-T-I-A-U-T-H-O-R-I-T-A-R-I-A-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Opposed to authoritarianism
  2. 2
    Opposed to authority

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how antiauthoritarian appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. For good or ill, American society is becoming increasingly democratic and antiauthoritarian, and most Catholics are participating in the democratization of the total culture.

Etymology

From anti- + authoritarian.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "antiauthoritarian"?
"antiauthoritarian" is spelled A-N-T-I-A-U-T-H-O-R-I-T-A-R-I-A-N.
What does "antiauthoritarian" mean?
As an adjective, "antiauthoritarian" means: Opposed to authoritarianism
What is the origin of the word "antiauthoritarian"?
From anti- + authoritarian. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list