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amant

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amant is spelled A-M-A-N-T: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, amant means “A lover, especially if illicit; a paramour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of amant is amants.

How many letters and syllables are in amant?

Letters5: A-M-A-N-T
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is amant?

Amant appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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).

What rhymes with amant?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as amant.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: manta, atman, manat.

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).

What does amant mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    archaicA lover, especially if illicit; a paramour.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does amant come from?

Borrowed from French amant, from Latin amantem, present participle of amō.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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