entrant

Other forms of entrant

plural

entrants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about entrant

What does entrant mean?

entrant means "a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in entrant?

entrant has 2 syllables: en-trant. The stress falls on "en". In IPA it is /ˈɛntɹənt/.

What is another word for entrant?

Close synonyms include newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is entrant a common word?

entrant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.