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theophile

noun

theophile is a noun meaning “One who loves God” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-E-O-P-H-I-L-E, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of theophile is theophiles.

What does theophile mean?

noun

  1. 1

    One who loves God.

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

Forms of theophile

  • theophiles plural

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

How common is theophile?

Theophile appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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 theophile come from?

From theo- + -phile.

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