voyant
French, noun/vwa.jɑ̃/
voyant is spelled V-O-Y-A-N-T (6 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written French, the 3,324th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voyant is a French masculine noun meaning “seer, clairvoyant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of voir. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui voit”.
What does voyant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
clairvoyant
- 2
showy, gaudy, conspicuous
- 3
staring
noun
- 1
masculineseer, clairvoyant
- 2
masculinelight (e.g. on a car dashboard)
- 3
masculinedayboard
verb
- 1
present participle of voir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que l’on voit ; qui attire la vue ; éclatant ; manifeste. 2. Ostentatoire ; très ou trop visible. 3. Qui voit.
noun: 1. Celui qui voit. 2. Celui qui prétend posséder le don de double vue. 3. Signal lumineux destiné à être très visible. 4. Partie supérieure d’une balise, qui indique spécialement sa signification.
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 voyant
- voyante feminine
- voyants masculine plural
- voyantes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce voyant?
- /vwa.jɑ̃/
- \vwa.jɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to voyant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is voyant in French?
voyant appears 23 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).