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vagrant

va·grant/ˈveɪɡɹənt/noun, adjective

vagrant is spelled V-A-G-R-A-N-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables (va·grant). It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vagrant means “A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vagrant is vagrants.

How many letters and syllables are in vagrant?

Letters7: V-A-G-R-A-N-T
Syllables2: va·grant
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 38,863rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 vagrant?

Vagrant appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd 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 vagrant?

  • US /ˈveɪɡɹənt/

Vagrant has 2 syllables, split va·grant in writing.

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

What rhymes with vagrant?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as vagrant from its last stressed vowel (/eɪɡɹənt/):

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 vagrant

  • vagrants plural
  • more vagrant comparative
  • most vagrant superlative

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

What does vagrant mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    datedA person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.

  2. 2

    A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.

    Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighbourhood begging for food.

  3. 3

    Any member of the species Vagrans egista of widely distributed Asian butteflies of the family Nymphalidae.

  4. 4

    An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.

adjective

  1. 1

    Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.

    a vagrant beggar

  2. 2

    Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.

  3. 3

    Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.

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

Vagrant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchvagabond, vagabonde (person who wanders from place to place – see…), clodo, clodote (person without settled employment or habitation…)
GermanLandstreicher, Landstreicherin (person who wanders from place to place – see…), Vagant, Vagantin, Gammler, Gammlerin (person without settled employment or habitation…)
Portugueseandarilho, andarilha (person who wanders from place to place – see…), vagabundo, vagabunda (person without settled employment or habitation…), vadio (wandering from place to place, particularly…)
Spanishvagabundo, vagabunda (person who wanders from place to place – see…)

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 vagrant come from?

From Late Middle English vagraunt (“person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”) [and other forms], probably from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagrant”) [and other forms] and Old French walcrant, waucrant (“roaming, wandering”) [and other forms], perhaps influenced by Latin vagārī, the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, stroll about; to roam, rove, wander”).

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

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