atheist

a·the·ist/ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/noun, adjective, verb

atheist is spelled A-T-H-E-I-S-T, 3 syllables: a·the·ist. The wrong spelling people search most is athiest: about 560 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Atheist is a noun meaning “A person who does not believe in deities or gods”. The plural of atheist is atheists.

How many letters and syllables are in atheist?

Letters	7: A-T-H-E-I-S-T
Syllables	3: a·the·ist
In writing	4.2 times per million words; the 12,578th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	1; the most searched, athiest, about 560 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Same letters	staithe

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell atheist?

Atheist is spelled A-T-H-E-I-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for atheist in either form.

atheistthe right spelling2,660 searches a month

athieste and i swapped560 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is atheist?

Atheist appears 4.2 times per million words in written English, the 12,578th most frequent word form in the list.

atheist0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

How do you pronounce atheist?

/ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/
/ˈeɪ.θi.əst/

Atheist has 3 syllables, split a·the·ist in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-atheist.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with atheist?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as atheist.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: staithe.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of atheist

atheists plural, present, singular, he/she/it
more atheist comparative
most atheist superlative
atheisting participle, present
atheisted participle, past

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

What does atheist mean?

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

noun

1
A person who does not believe in deities or gods.
2
A person who is certain that no deities exist or who thinks that the existence of deities can be disproven.
3
A person who doubts the existence of deities (therefore, an agnostic may be considered an atheist).
4
Any person lacking belief in deities (including children who are unaware of religion).
5
A person who does not believe in a particular deity (but may believe in another deity).
6
proscribedA person who does not believe in any religion (not even a religion without gods); a nonreligious person.

adjective

1
Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.

verb

1
rareTo make someone an atheist.