I'm a beginner at Japanese, and I've thought I'd learn the Hiragana alphabet
by learning the Japanese words that are most important to me.

Naturally, I started with the word "enlightenment", for which one choice seems
to be "さとる". Now the Wikipedia article about ons uses a full stop in order to
denote the boundaries between the ons. If we transfer this principle to

<https://jisho.org/search/%E6%82%9F%20%23kanji>

this would mean that さ and と belong to the same on, which seems absurd.

Does this mean that the pronunciation is "storu"? I'd be glad to be
enlightened in this regard!
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pronunciation
How many ons does さとる have?
It transpired in the comments that the dot in the dictionary I linked to
indicates the separation between that which is usually written in kanji-form
and the remainder of the word. That is to say, the two letters before the dot
indicate the pronunciation of the kanji, whereas the letter after it is just
the remainder which is usually just added after the kanji.
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It seems you're referring to
[this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_\(Japanese_prosody\)) Wikipedia
article regarding 'Ons' (I have personally never heard of this).

Japanese pronunciation is usually broken up into 'moras', with each kana in a
word being pronounced for the same length of time (There are a few exceptions
to this such as きゃ、しょ etc..).

The dot notation on Jisho.org indicates where the 送り仮名 starts.

悟る is pronounced さとる。 You can hear some native speakers saying it
[here](https://sentencesearch.neocities.org/#%E6%82%9F%E3%82%8B).
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Short answer, the dot you're referring to does not refer to boundaries between
"on"s.

> Now the Wikipedia article about ons uses a full stop in order to denote the
> boundaries between the ons.

This is not the case. The dot is there to indicate where the 送り仮名（okurigana）
starts; in other words, the kana before the dot is represented by the kanji,
the kana after the dot cannot go into the kanji, and has to be added after it.

In your case, the dot in さと.る means it could be written as 悟る, where さと goes
into 悟, and the る, being the okurigana, remains.
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