truant

Other forms of truant

plural

truants·

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 truant

What does truant mean?

truant means "one who is absent from school without permission". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in truant?

truant has 2 syllables: tru-ant. The stress falls on "tru". In IPA it is /ˈtɹuənt/.

What is another word for truant?

Close synonyms include hooky player, no-show, nonattender, awol. 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 truant a common word?

truant 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.