inhabitant

Other forms of inhabitant

plural

inhabitants·

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 inhabitant

What does inhabitant mean?

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

How many syllables are in inhabitant?

inhabitant has 4 syllables: in-hab-i-tant. The stress falls on "hab". In IPA it is /ɪnˈhæbətənt/.

What is another word for inhabitant?

Close synonyms include habitant, 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 inhabitant a common word?

inhabitant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.