alternants

Meaning of alternants

plural noun
  1. an alternative form of a word or other linguistic unit; a variant.
    one form occurs more than its alternants

mid 17th century: from Latin alternant- ‘doing things by turns’, from the verb alternare (see alternate).

Information about alternants

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of alternants is: alternant.
  • Languages ​​in which alternants is used:

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Hyphenation of alternants

al-ter-nants

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • alternants is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with alternants

ants, fainaants, Corybants, absorbants, bants, corybants, disturbants, perturbants, turbants, turribants, alicants, antidesiccants, applicants, cants, communicants, contraindicants, cosecants, decants, dedicants, descants, desiccants, detoxicants, discants, exsecants, fabricants, implicants, incants, indicants, intoxicants, locants, lubricants, medicants, mendicants, noncommunicants, nonintoxicants, predicants, provocants, recants, reciprocants, scants, secants, significants, supplicants, toxicants, urticants, vesicants, Ascendants, abradants, antioxidants, appendants

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