Definitions for informant

informant in·form·ant

Spelling: [in-fawr-muh nt]
IPA: /ɪnˈfɔr mənt/

Informant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 424 anagrams from letters in informant (afimnnort).

Definitions for informant

noun

  1. a person who informs or gives information; informer.
  2. a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator.
  3. Linguistics. a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language.

Origin of informant

1655-65; Latin infōrmant- (stem of infōrmāns) present participle of infōrmāre. See inform1, -ant

Examples for informant

She said this calmly and quietly, as though to impress her informant and reassure him.

The informant has always met with misfortune, accident—whatever you like to call it.

Prosecutors claim that Monsegur helped prevent as many as 300 cyberattacks during his time as an informant.

Instead, he was offered a deal: permission to stay, if he became an informant.

They want the benefits of being an informant and the income from doing something illegal.

She needs to make sure the informant is alive, but he needs him dead.

Accordingly the ephors questioned their informant: "How say you the occurrence is to take place?"

But how would he know this; surely you would not become the informant?

In April of this year, the FBI tried to recruit a member of the Guantanamo defense team as an informant.

It only hopes that your Holiness will require your informant to do so.

Word Value for informant
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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