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monotheist

noun

monotheist is spelled M-O-N-O-T-H-E-I-S-T: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, monotheist means “A believer of monotheism, the doctrine that there is a single divine being in the universe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of monotheist is monotheists.

How many letters and syllables are in monotheist?

Letters10: M-O-N-O-T-H-E-I-S-T
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th 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 monotheist?

Monotheist appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 monotheist?

  • US

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

Forms of monotheist

  • monotheists plural

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

What does monotheist mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A believer of monotheism, the doctrine that there is a single divine being in the universe.

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

Monotheist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a believer in monotheism:

LanguageWords
Frenchmonothéiste
GermanMonotheist, Monotheistin
Portuguesemonoteísta
Spanishmonoteísta

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does monotheist come from?

From mono- (“one, singular”) + theist (“believer in God or gods”) after the model of earlier atheist, polytheist, &c.

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

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