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charlatanism

noun

charlatanism is a noun meaning “The state of being a charlatan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-A-R-L-A-T-A-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of charlatanism is charlatanisms.

What does charlatanism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being a charlatan

  2. 2

    An act of a charlatan

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of charlatanism

  • charlatanisms plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is charlatanism?

Charlatanism appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).

Where does charlatanism come from?

From charlatan + -ism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).