litigant

Other forms of litigant

plural

litigants·

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 litigant

What does litigant mean?

litigant means "(law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation".

How many syllables are in litigant?

litigant has 3 syllables: lit-i-gant. The stress falls on "lit". In IPA it is /ˈlɪtɪɡənt/.

What is another word for litigant?

Close synonyms include litigator. 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 litigant a common word?

litigant 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.