flabbergastment
"flabbergastment" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flabbergastment” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)
Corpus desk
Index EN-flabbergastment · flabbergastment · English
flabbergastment · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flabbergastment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “flabbergastment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
flabbergastment is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)".
flabbergastment has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From flabbergast + -ment. The correct English form is flabbergastment, spelled F-L-A-B-B-E-R-G-A-S-T-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flabbergastment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was the Wells-Fargo coach, the Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the coach from which steps that pulchritudinous schoolmarm from the East to the flabbergastment of gawping cowpokes.
I even attempted tears myself, but flabbergastment dried my eyes.
Etymology
From flabbergast + -ment.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.