gigantomania
"gigantomania" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gigantomania” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An obsession with the production of works on a very large scale, such as huge buildings, factories, weapons, or social engineering schemes; such production itself.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gigantomania · gigantomania · English
gigantomania · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" 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 | gigantomania |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gigantomania” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gigantomania is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An obsession with the production of works on a very large scale, such as huge buildings, factories, weapons, or social engineering schemes; such production itself.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gigantomania, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From giganto- + -mania. The correct English form is gigantomania, spelled G-I-G-A-N-T-O-M-A-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1An obsession with the production of works on a very large scale, such as huge buildings, factories, weapons, or social engineering schemes; such production itself.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gigantomania appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The issue entered the election campaign when Schroeder's shadow culture minister, Michael Naumann, compared the memorial designs to the gigantomania of Hitler's achitect, Albert Speer. He said that none of his American Jewish friends were in favour of the memorial and that it should be cancelled.
It was, most likely, just a spontaneous - and often subconscious - protest against the officially cultivated gigantomania, which in reality was but an excuse for shortages and inefficiency. "Big is beautiful!" the Soviet propaganda kept insisting, but we refused to believe it.
Etymology
From giganto- + -mania.
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.