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glorioso

/ɡlɔːɹiˈəʊsəʊ/obsolete

glorioso is spelled G-L-O-R-I-O-S-O: 8 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, glorioso means “A boaster” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of glorioso is gloriosos.

How many letters and syllables are in glorioso?

Letters8: G-L-O-R-I-O-S-O
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is glorioso?

Glorioso appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 glorioso?

  • /ɡlɔːɹiˈəʊsəʊ/

Glorioso has 4 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).

What does glorioso mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA boaster.

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

Where does glorioso come from?

Borrowed from Italian.

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

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