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argent

ar·gent/ˈɑɹd͡ʒənt/noun, adjective

argent is spelled A-R-G-E-N-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables (ar·gent). It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, argent means “The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of argent is argents.

How many letters and syllables are in argent?

Letters6: A-R-G-E-N-T
Syllables2: ar·gent
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 36,998th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
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 argent?

Argent appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th 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 argent?

  • UK /ˈɑːdʒənt/
  • US /ˈɑɹd͡ʒənt/

Argent has 2 syllables, split ar·gent in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-argent.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with argent?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as argent from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹdʒənt/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: garnet.

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 argent

  • argents plural
  • arg.
  • a.

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

What does argent mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    archaicThe metal silver.

  2. 2

    The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

  3. 3

    archaicWhiteness; anything that is white.

  4. 4

    A moth of the genus Argyresthia.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of silver or silver-coloured.

  2. 2

    Of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

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

How do you abbreviate argent?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of argent: ar., arg..

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

Argent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchargent (silver or metal tincture)
GermanSilber (silver or metal tincture), silbern (of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms)
Portugueseprata (silver or metal tincture), branco (of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms), prateado, argento, argênteo (of silver or silver coloured)
Spanishplata (silver or metal tincture), plata (blanco) (of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms), argénteo (of silver or silver coloured)

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 argent come from?

From Middle English argent, from Old French argent m (“silver”), from Latin argentum n (“white money, silver”).

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

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