reliant
adjective
reliant is an adjective meaning “Having reliance on somebody or something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-L-I-A-N-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears 2.6 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does reliant mean?
adjective
- 1
Having reliance on somebody or something.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce reliant?
- US
Reliant 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Qwertygiy-reliant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of reliant
- more reliant comparative
- most reliant superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is reliant?
Reliant appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,896th 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).
Reliant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having reliance on somebody or something:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dépendant |
| German | abhängig, angewiesen |
| Portuguese | dependente |
| Spanish | dependiente |
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 reliant come from?
From rely + -ant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).