Word.ws English Dictionary

analphabets

analphabets is the plural of analphabet.

Meaning of analphabet

Noun

analphabet (plural analphabets)

  1. A person who does not know the letters of the alphabet; a partly or wholly illiterate person.
    • In 1861, out of a total population of 21,777,331, there were no less than 16,999,701 "analphabetes," or persons absolutely unable to read.1896, J[ohn] M[orrison] Reid, J. T. Gracey, “Part XI. Mission to Italy.”, in Missions and the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church […] In Three Volumes, volume III, New York, N.Y....
    Synonyms:
    illiterate

See all 2 meanings of analphabet

Questions about analphabets

What is analphabets the plural of?
Analphabets is the plural of analphabet.

Words near analphabets in the dictionary

  1. analphabetes
  2. analphabetic
  3. analphabetical
  4. analphabetics
  5. analphabetism
  6. analphabets
  7. analphalipoproteinaemia
  8. analphalipoproteinemia
  9. anals
  10. analvos
  11. analward

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: analphabets (page history and authors); analphabet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “analphabets.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/analphabets. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.