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scariants

scariants is the plural of scariant.

Meaning of scariant

Noun

scariant (plural scariants)

  1. (informal) An unconfirmed or unstudied variant or strain of COVID-19 that causes widespread panic.
    • Public health officials derided the X-MPLE strain as a "scariant" last night.

Questions about scariants

What is scariants the plural of?
Scariants is the plural of scariant.

Words near scariants in the dictionary

  1. Scargill
  2. Scargillian
  3. Scargills
  4. scari
  5. scariant
  6. scariants
  7. scarid
  8. scarids
  9. scarier
  10. scaries
  11. scariest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scariants (page history and authors); scariant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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