savant

Questions about savant

What does savant mean?

savant means "someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field".

How many syllables are in savant?

savant has 2 syllables: sa-vant. The stress falls on "vant". In IPA it is /səˈvɑnt/.

What is another word for savant?

Close synonyms include initiate, learned person, pundit. 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 savant a common word?

savant 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.