laity

About 1.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
2. noun The common man or woman.
3. noun The unlearned, untrained or ignorant.

Similar words

temporalty laypeople laypersons laymen laywomen laics seculars parishioners congregation churchgoers

Often followed by

and in of to were as are who was

Word family

laities