variant
/ˈvæɹi.ənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Covariant and/or contravariant.
Example Sentences
- "All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”."
- "Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID."
- "The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”."
- "The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants."
- "Each member of this group of two or more forms is called a variant. [...] In this case ‘-in’ and ‘-ing’ are variants of the sociolinguistic variable -ing."
Etymology
From Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”). First attested in c. 1380.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: variant, variāns
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvæɹi.ənt/
- British English: /ˈvɛəɹi.ənt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more variant (comparative)
most variant (superlative)
variaunt (alternative, obsolete)
variants (plural)