arrogant
/ˈæɹəɡənt/adjective
arrogant is spelled A-R-R-O-G-A-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is arogant: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Arrogant is an adjective meaning “Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others”.
How many letters and syllables are in arrogant?
| Letters | 8: A-R-R-O-G-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.5 times per million words; the 10,519th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, arogant, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell arrogant?
Arrogant is spelled A-R-R-O-G-A-N-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for arrogant in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is arrogant?
Arrogant appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce arrogant?
- UK /ˈæɹəɡənt/
- British /ˈaɹəɡənt/
- /ˈæɹəɡənt/
Arrogant has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-arrogant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with arrogant?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as arrogant (/æɹəɡənt/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tarragon.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of arrogant
- more arrogant comparative
- most arrogant superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does arrogant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.
sound arrogant
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Arrogant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having excessive pride:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | arrogant, orgueilleux |
| German | arrogant, hochmütig, eingebildet |
| Portuguese | arrogante |
| Spanish | arrogante, soberbio, altivo, altanero, creído, presumido |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does arrogant come from?
From Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French arrogant, from Latin arrogāns, present active participle of arrogō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).