egregious
/ɪˈɡɹiː.d͡ʒəs/adjective
egregious is spelled E-G-R-E-G-I-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is aggregious: about 310 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 34 of all searches for the word. Egregious is an adjective meaning “Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense”.
How many letters and syllables are in egregious?
| Letters | 9: E-G-R-E-G-I-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, aggregious, about 310 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 egregious?
Egregious is spelled E-G-R-E-G-I-O-U-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 32 of the searches for egregious 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 egregious?
Egregious appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 egregious?
- /ɪˈɡɹiː.d͡ʒəs/
- /əˈɡɹiː.d͡ʒi.əs/
Egregious 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-egregious.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of egregious
- more egregious comparative
- most egregious superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does egregious mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.
The student has made egregious errors on the examination.
- 2
Outrageously bad; shocking.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Egregious in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | flagrant, inouï |
| German | unerhört, ungeheuerlich, außergewöhnlich , entsetzlich |
| Portuguese | odioso, atroz , ultrajante |
| Spanish | egregio , craso, garrafal |
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 egregious come from?
From Latin ēgregius, from e- (“out of”), + grex (“flock”), + English adjective suffix -ous, from Latin suffix -osus (“full of”); reflecting the positive connotations of "standing out from the flock".
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).