occupant

Other forms of occupant

plural

occupants·

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 occupant

What does occupant mean?

occupant means "someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there".

How many syllables are in occupant?

occupant has 3 syllables: oc-cu-pant. The stress falls on "oc". In IPA it is /ˈɑkjəpənt/.

What is another word for occupant?

Close synonyms include resident, occupier. 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 occupant a common word?

occupant 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.