ostentatiousness

noun

"ostentatiousness" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“ostentatiousness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property or characteristic of being ostentatious.

Corpus desk

Index EN-ostentatiousness · ostentatiousness · English

ostentatiousness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "O" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for ostentatiousness
PropertyValue
Headwordostentatiousness
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “ostentatiousness” in English

ostentatiousnessranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ostentatiousness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The property or characteristic of being ostentatious.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ostentatiousness, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 ostentatious + -ness. The correct English form is ostentatiousness, spelled O-S-T-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The property or characteristic of being ostentatious.

Etymology

From ostentatious + -ness.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ostentatiousness"?
"ostentatiousness" is spelled O-S-T-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S.
What does "ostentatiousness" mean?
As a noun, "ostentatiousness" means: The property or characteristic of being ostentatious.
What is the origin of the word "ostentatiousness"?
From ostentatious + -ness. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list