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complementarian

noun, adjective

complementarian is spelled C-O-M-P-L-E-M-E-N-T-A-R-I-A-N: 15 letters. It appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, complementarian means “Someone who believes that men and women are equal in status but should have different and complementary roles, especially in marriage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of complementarian is complementarians.

How many letters and syllables are in complementarian?

Letters15: C-O-M-P-L-E-M-E-N-T-A-R-I-A-N
In writingabout once in every 63 million words; the 249,463rd 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 complementarian?

Complementarian appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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 complementarian?

  • UK

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Rho9998-complementarian.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of complementarian

  • complementarians plural

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

What does complementarian mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who believes that men and women are equal in status but should have different and complementary roles, especially in marriage.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to complementarianism.

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

Where does complementarian come from?

From complement + -arian.

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

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