survivant
French, noun\syʁ.vi.vɑ̃\
survivant is spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-A-N-T (9 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written French, the 12,326th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Survivant is a French masculine noun meaning “survivor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of survivre. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui a survécu à une autre personne”.
What does survivant mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesurvivor
adjective
- 1
surviving
verb
- 1
present participle of survivre
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui survit à un autre. 2. Qui survit à un accident.
noun: 1. Celui qui a survécu à une autre personne. 2. Celui qui a survécu à un événement traumatique. 3. Celui qui a survécu à un accident, à une catastrophe, à une maladie. 4. Celui qui a survécu à une guerre, à un crime de masse, à un attentat, à un génocide.
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 survivant
- survivants plural
- survivante feminine
- survivantes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce survivant?
- \syʁ.vi.vɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to survivant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is survivant in French?
survivant appears 4.4 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).