Definitions for errant

errant er·rant

Spelling: [er-uh nt]
IPA: /ˈɛr ənt/

Errant is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in errant (aenrrt).

Definitions for errant

adjective

  1. deviating from the regular or proper course; erring; straying.
  2. journeying or traveling, as a medieval knight in quest of adventure; roving adventurously.
  3. moving in an aimless or lightly changing manner:

Origin of errant

1300-50; Middle English erraunt Middle French, Old French errant, present participle of errer, edrer to travel Vulgar Latin *iterāre to journey, for Late Latin itinerārī, derivative of iter,

Examples for errant

Burns smiled as a king might upon a young knight seeking an errant.

Occasionally some flame would come in pursuit of her errant swain.

"True, sir," said I in perfunctory acknowledgment, but with errant thoughts.

Their figures, unfixed in the abyss, have been shifted like errant sands of Earth.

Some things have changed a lot since 1984 when the errant Father Buck wrote to his young love interest.

Gone were the ugly memories of errant throws to the wrong bases or ill-advised cutoffs.

Usually, I have discovered the errant one—with the help of my guards, of course.

It took searchers almost two weeks to find the errant missile.

The errant flashes of light in your brain depicting this possibility are strong enough to make you wince and want to cry.

There was a cruel irony in him being killed from above by an errant bomb dropped by an American B-1 bomber.

Word Value for errant
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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