aberrant
ab·er·rant/əˈbɛɹ.ənt/adjective, noun
aberrant is spelled A-B-E-R-R-A-N-T, 3 syllables: ab·er·rant. The wrong spelling people search most is abberant: about 370 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Aberrant is an adjective meaning “Differing from the norm”.
How many letters and syllables are in aberrant?
| Letters | 8: A-B-E-R-R-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ab·er·rant |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 42,145th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, abberant, about 370 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell aberrant?
Aberrant is spelled A-B-E-R-R-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for aberrant 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.
How common is aberrant?
Aberrant appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th 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).
How do you pronounce aberrant?
- UK /əˈbɛɹ.ənt/
- UK /ˈæb.ə.ɹənt/
- US /əˈbɛɹ.ənt/
Aberrant has 3 syllables, split ab·er·rant in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-aberrant.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-aberrant2.wav, En-ca-aberrant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with aberrant?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as aberrant from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹənt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of aberrant
- more aberrant comparative
- most aberrant superlative
- aberrants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does aberrant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Differing from the norm.
- 2
Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
- 3
Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
noun
- 1
A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
- 2
A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Aberrant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | aberrant |
| Portuguese | aberrante |
| Spanish | aberrante , anormal , anómalo, atípico |
| German | aberrante , Abweichler m/Abweichlerin, Abtrünniger m/Abtrünnige |
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 aberrant come from?
From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).