exultant
/ɪɡˈzʌl.tənt/
"exultant" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exultant” is an uncommon English word, ranked #78,588 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #78,588
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Very happy, especially at someone else's defeat or failure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exultant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪɡˈzʌl.tənt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “exultant” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for exultant is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪɡˈzʌl.tənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #78,588 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Very happy, especially at someone else's defeat or failure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exultant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin exsultāns, present participle of exsultō (“rejoice; boast”). See also exult. The correct English form is exultant, spelled E-X-U-L-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Very happy, especially at someone else's defeat or failure.
Etymology
From Latin exsultāns, present participle of exsultō (“rejoice; boast”). See also exult.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-X-U-L-T-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.