habitant

Other forms of habitant

plural

habitants·

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 habitant

What does habitant mean?

habitant means "a person who inhabits a particular place".

How many syllables are in habitant?

habitant has 3 syllables: ha-bi-tant. The stress falls on "ha".

What is another word for habitant?

Close synonyms include inhabitant, dweller, denizen, indweller. 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 habitant a common word?

habitant 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.