blatant
/ˈbleɪtənt/adjective
blatant is spelled B-L-A-T-A-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is blatent: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Blatant is an adjective meaning “Obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive”.
How many letters and syllables are in blatant?
| Letters | 7: B-L-A-T-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.8 times per million words; the 16,005th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, blatent, about 130 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell blatant?
Blatant is spelled B-L-A-T-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for blatant 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 blatant?
Blatant appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th 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 blatant?
- /ˈbleɪtənt/
Blatant has 2 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-blatant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of blatant
- more blatant comparative
- most blatant superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does blatant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive.
a blatant breach of good faith in the negotiation
- 2
archaicBellowing; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Blatant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | clair, éhonté, fieffé, flagrant, manifeste |
| German | offensichtlich, himmelschreiend, eklatant, krass , brüllend |
| Portuguese | óbvio, gritante, evidente, escancarado |
| Spanish | descarado, saltante, sin disimulo , estentóreo, estruendoso |
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 blatant come from?
Coined by Edmund Spenser in 1596 in "blatant beast". Probably a variation of *blatand (Scots blaitand (“bleating”)), present participle of blate, a variation of bleat, equivalent to blate + -ant. See bleat. In addition, it is suggested by Latin blatiō (“speak like a fool, prate”), which is rare, and so the similitude may be just coincidental. Compare typologically Bulgarian вопиющ (vopijušt), Russian вопию́щий (vopijúščij) (akin to вопи́ть (vopítʹ)).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).