blatantly
/ˈbleɪtəntli/adverb
blatantly is spelled B-L-A-T-A-N-T-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is blatently: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Blatantly is an adverb meaning “In a blatant manner; so as to be highly visible or obvious”.
How many letters and syllables are in blatantly?
| Letters | 9: B-L-A-T-A-N-T-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words; the 22,362nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, blatently, about 80 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 blatantly?
Blatantly is spelled B-L-A-T-A-N-T-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for blatantly 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 blatantly?
Blatantly appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,362nd 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 blatantly?
- /ˈbleɪtəntli/
Blatantly 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-blatantly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of blatantly
- more blatantly comparative
- most blatantly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does blatantly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In a blatant manner; so as to be highly visible or obvious.
Although he was blatantly on drugs, the crowd still cheered him.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Blatantly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a blatant manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | manifestement, ouvertement, clairement |
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 blatantly come from?
From blatant + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).