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pant

/pænt/noun, verb

pant is spelled P-A-N-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pant means “A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pant is pants.

How many letters and syllables are in pant?

Letters4: P-A-N-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 pant?

Pant appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th 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 pant?

  • US /pænt/
  • British /pant/
  • Australia /pæːnt/

Pant has one syllable (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: En-us-pant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with pant?

10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as pant from its last stressed vowel (/ænt/):

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 pant

  • pants plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • panting participle, present
  • panted participle, past

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

What does pant mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.

  2. 2

    Eager longing.

  3. 3

    obsoleteA violent palpitation of the heart.

  4. 4

    A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).

    To commemorate our 50th anniversary we've rolled out a new pant with our signature blue and white seams.

  5. 5

    Of or relating to pants.

    pant leg

  6. 6

    colloquialnonstandardA leg on a pair of trousers.

  7. 7

    Any public drinking fountain.

verb

  1. 1

    To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

  2. 2

    To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo long for (something); to be eager for (something).

  4. 4

    Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.

  5. 5

    To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

  6. 6

    To heave, as the breast.

  7. 7

    To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

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

Pant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchhalètement (a quick breathing), palpitation (a violent palpitation of the heart), haleter (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner), désirer (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager…), palpiter (4. of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence)
Germankeuchen (a quick breathing), hecheln, schnaufen (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner), heftig verlangen nach, lechzen nach, dürsten nach (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager…)
Portugueseofego, arfagem (a quick breathing), ofegar, arfar, arquejar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner), ansiar (3. transitive: long for (something); be eager…)
Spanishjadeo (a quick breathing), palpitación (a violent palpitation of the heart), jadear, ijadear, harbar, acezar (1. to breathe quickly or in a labored manner)

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 pant come from?

From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank. Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).

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

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