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ranter

noun

ranter is a noun meaning “One who rants; a noisy, boisterous speaker or declaimer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-N-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ranter is ranters.

What does ranter mean?

noun

  1. 1

    One who rants; a noisy, boisterous speaker or declaimer.

  2. 2

    obsoleteA jovial fellow.

noun

as Ranter
  1. 1

    A member of an alleged sect in the time of the English Commonwealth (1649–1660) who were regarded as heretical by the established church.

  2. 2

    derogatoryOne of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervour and zeal.

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

Forms of ranter

  • ranters plural

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

How common is ranter?

Ranter appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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 ranter come from?

From rant + -er.

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