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arahant

noun

arahant is spelled A-R-A-H-A-N-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, arahant means “Eminently high achiever who has attained enlightenment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of arahant is arahants.

How many letters and syllables are in arahant?

Letters7: A-R-A-H-A-N-T
In writingabout once in every 51 million words; the 222,788th 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 arahant?

Arahant appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 arahant

  • arahants plural

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

What does arahant mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Eminently high achiever who has attained enlightenment.

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

Where does arahant come from?

Borrowed from Pali arahant (“one who is worthy”). Doublet of arhat and arihant.

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

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