braggadocio
brag·ga·do·ci·o/ˌbɹæɡ.əˈdoʊ.ʃiˌoʊ/noun
braggadocio is spelled B-R-A-G-G-A-D-O-C-I-O, 5 syllables: brag·ga·do·ci·o. The wrong spelling people search most is braggadoccio: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Braggadocio is a noun meaning “A braggart”. The plural of braggadocio is braggadocios; Wiktionary also lists braggadocioes (archaic), braggadocii (rare).
How many letters and syllables are in braggadocio?
| Letters | 11: B-R-A-G-G-A-D-O-C-I-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: brag·ga·do·ci·o |
| In writing | about once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, braggadoccio, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 braggadocio?
Braggadocio is spelled B-R-A-G-G-A-D-O-C-I-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for braggadocio 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 braggadocio?
Braggadocio appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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 braggadocio?
- /bɹaɡaˈdoːt͡ʃo/
- UK /ˌbɹæ.ɡəˈdəʊ.t͡ʃəʊ/
- US /ˌbɹæɡ.əˈdoʊ.ʃiˌoʊ/
Braggadocio has 5 syllables, split brag·ga·do·ci·o in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-braggadocio.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of braggadocio
- braggadocios plural
- braggadocii plural, rare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does braggadocio mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A braggart.
- 2
Empty boasting.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Braggadocio in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense empty boasting:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fanfaronnade |
| German | Angeberei, Großspurigkeit |
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 braggadocio come from?
Pseudo-Italianism, coined after Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).