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garant

French, noun/ɡa.ʁɑ̃/

garant is spelled G-A-R-A-N-T (6 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written French, the 12,122nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Garant is a French masculine noun meaning “guarantor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of garer. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui répond ou se porte responsable de son propre fait ou du fait d’autrui”.

What does garant mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineguarantor

  2. 2

    masculinesurety

verb

  1. 1

    present participle of garer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui garantit la tenue d’une promesse.

noun: 1. Celui qui répond ou se porte responsable de son propre fait ou du fait d’autrui. 2. Celui qui est caution d’un autre, qui répond de sa dette. 3. Celui qui est obligé de faire jouir un autre de la chose qu’il lui a vendue ou transportée à titre onéreux ou gratuit. 4. Auteur dont on a tiré un fait, un principe qu’on avance, un passage que l’on cite ; personne de qui on tient une nouvelle.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of garant

  • garants plural
  • garante feminine
  • garantes plural feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce garant?

  • /ɡa.ʁɑ̃/
  • /ɡɑ.ʁɑ̃/
  • \ɡa.ʁɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to garant

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is garant in French?

garant appears 4.5 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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