grandiosity
"grandiosity" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grandiosity” is uncommon English (frequency #89,415 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,415
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).
Corpus desk
Index EN-grandiosity · grandiosity · English
grandiosity · rank #89,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,415
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Grahamstown
Nearest frequency peer: Grahamstown (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “grandiosity”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gokhale
Gokhale
10,594 corpus weight
- goos
goos
10,592 corpus weight
- Grahamstown
Grahamstown
10,587 corpus weight
- grandiosity
grandiosity
10,586 corpus weight
- gren
gren
10,584 corpus weight
- griefs
griefs
10,582 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grandiosity” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grandiosity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #89,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grandiosity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grandiosity is uncommon English at frequency #89,415 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).".
grandiosity has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From grandiose + -ity. The correct English form is grandiosity, spelled G-R-A-N-D-I-O-S-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grandiosity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] the narcissistic leader does not use his narcissistic charisma only as a means for political success; he needs success and applause for the sake of his own mental equilibrium. The idea of his greatness and infallibility is essentially based on his narcissistic grandiosity, not on his real achievements as a human being.
U2 have never been a band noted for their love of shy understatement, but even by their standards, their arrival in Las Vegas represents a hitherto-unimagined degree of grandiosity.
Etymology
From grandiose + -ity.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).