Arminian
"arminian" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Arminian” is an uncommon English word, ranked #83,980 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,980
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person who follows the soteriological doctrine of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius that people are able to choose to resist or accept divine grace and therefore faith and salvation through f...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arminian |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Arminian” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Arminian is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #83,980 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A person who follows the soteriological doctrine of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius that people are able to choose to resist or accept divine grace and therefore faith and salvation through f...".
Zero misspellings are on record for Arminian in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Dutch arminiaan. Equivalent to Arminius + -an. The correct English form is Arminian, spelled A-R-M-I-N-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1A person who follows the soteriological doctrine of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius that people are able to choose to resist or accept divine grace and therefore faith and salvation through free will.
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch arminiaan. Equivalent to Arminius + -an.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Arminian”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-R-M-I-N-I-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.