consultant
/kənˈsʌl.tənt/noun
consultant is spelled C-O-N-S-U-L-T-A-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is consulant: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 50 of all searches for the word. Consultant is a noun meaning “A person or party that is consulted”. The plural of consultant is consultants.
How do you spell consultant?
Consultant is spelled C-O-N-S-U-L-T-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 50 of the searches for consultant in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does consultant mean?
noun
- 1
A person or party that is consulted.
- 2
A person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, service or help in an area or specialty; a party whose business is to be similarly consulted.
- 3
CanadaUSSynonym of informant.
- 4
IrelandUKA senior hospital-based physician or surgeon who has completed all specialist training and has been placed on the specialist register in their chosen speciality, roughly equivalent to an attending physician in North America.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce consultant?
- US /kənˈsʌl.tənt/
- Australia /kənˈsɐl.tənt/
- /ˈkən.səl.ʈenʈ/
Consultant has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-consultant.oga, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Jjamesryan-consultant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of consultant
- consultants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is consultant?
Consultant appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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).
Consultant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person or party that is consulted:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | consultant, consultante |
| German | Berater, Beraterin |
| Portuguese | consultor |
| Spanish | consultor |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does consultant come from?
From French consultant, present participle of consulter, from Latin cōnsultāre (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of cōnsulere (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulere, of uncertain origin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).