Truant

Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Scrabble:6 ptsWWF:8 pts6 letters

Definition of Truant

Adjective

Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
Of a student: absent from school without permission.
"He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement."
Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.

Noun

An idle or lazy person; an idler.
A student who is absent from school without permission; hence , a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.

Verb

Also used with the impersonal pronoun it : to shirk or wander from business or duty; of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
"The number of schoolchildren known to have truanted from this school has been unusually high."
To idle away or waste (time).

Anagrams of Truant

Words You Can Make

25 words can be made from the letters in "truant":

5-LETTER WORDS

4-LETTER WORDS

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3-LETTER WORDS

ant art att nut ran rat run rut tan tar tat tau tun tut urn+1 more

+1 Letter Anagrams

Words formed by adding one letter to "truant" and rearranging:

Related Word Patterns

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Rhyming Words

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