enlightener
noun
enlightener is a noun meaning “One who, or that which, enlightens” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-L-I-G-H-T-E-N-E-R, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of enlightener is enlighteners.
What does enlightener mean?
noun
- 1
One who, or that which, enlightens.
- 2
A thinker of the Age of Enlightenment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of enlightener
- enlighteners plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is enlightener?
Enlightener appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).
Where does enlightener come from?
From enlighten + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).