emigrant
/ˈɛmɪɡɹənt/noun
emigrant is spelled E-M-I-G-R-A-N-T: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “emigrant vs immigrant” about 6,600 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, emigrant means “Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of emigrant is emigrants.
How many letters and syllables are in emigrant?
| Letters | 8: E-M-I-G-R-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 45,363rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); 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).
How common is emigrant?
Emigrant appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd 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 emigrant?
- /ˈɛmɪɡɹənt/
Emigrant 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-emigrant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with emigrant
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of emigrant
- emigrants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does emigrant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.
- 2
Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called a migrant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Emigrant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | émigré, émigrée, émigrant, émigrante |
| German | Auswanderer, Auswanderin, Emigrant, Emigrantin, Aussiedler |
| Portuguese | emigrante |
| Spanish | emigrante |
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 emigrant come from?
From Classical Latin ēmigrāns, present participle of ēmigrāre (“to emigrate”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).