informant
/ɪnˈfɔɹmənt/noun
informant is spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-N-T: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, informant means “One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of informant is informants.
How many letters and syllables are in informant?
| Letters | 9: I-N-F-O-R-M-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is informant?
Informant appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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 informant?
- UK /ɪnˈfɔːmənt/
- US /ɪnˈfɔɹmənt/
Informant 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)-I_learned_some_phrases-informant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with informant?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as informant from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹmənt/):
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 informant
- informants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does informant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
- 2
proscribedA native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Informant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who relays confidential information:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | informateur, informatrice |
| German | Informant, Informantin |
| Portuguese | informante, delator |
| Spanish | informante |
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 informant come from?
From inform + -ant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).