colourant
/ˈkʌlər(ə)nt/noun
colourant is a noun meaning “A pigment, dye or other colour-altering product added to something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-L-O-U-R-A-N-T, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of colourant is colourants.
What does colourant mean?
noun
- 1
A pigment, dye or other colour-altering product added to something.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce colourant?
- /ˈkʌlər(ə)nt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-colourant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of colourant
- colourants plural
- colorant
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is colourant?
Colourant appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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).
Colourant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a pigment, dye etc added to something to change its colour or hue:
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 colourant come from?
From colour + -ant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).