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declarant

/ˈdɛkləɹənt/noun

declarant is spelled D-E-C-L-A-R-A-N-T: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, declarant means “A person who makes a formal declaration or statement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of declarant is declarants.

How many letters and syllables are in declarant?

Letters9: D-E-C-L-A-R-A-N-T
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is declarant?

Declarant appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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 declarant?

  • /ˈdɛkləɹənt/
  • /dəˈkleɪɹənt/

Declarant 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)-Vealhurl-declarant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of declarant

  • declarants plural

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

What does declarant mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person who makes a formal declaration or statement

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

Declarant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a person who makes a formal declaration or statement:

LanguageWords
GermanDeklarant, Deklarantin
Portuguesedeclarante, depoente
Spanishdeclarante

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 declarant come from?

From French déclarant.

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

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