thetan
the·tan/ˈθeɪ.tən/noun
thetan is a noun meaning “A soul, spirit or being” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-E-T-A-N and has 2 syllables (the·tan), and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thetan is thetans.
What does thetan mean?
noun
- 1
A soul, spirit or being.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thetan?
- /ˈθeɪ.tən/
Thetan has 2 syllables, split the·tan in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-thetan.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of thetan
- thetans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thetan?
Thetan appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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 thetan come from?
c. Mid 20th c., Coined by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, from theta + -n, from Ancient Greek θῆτα (thêta, “theta”), used in Scientology to represent the source of life.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).