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ranty

adjective

ranty is an adjective meaning “Characterised by ranting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-N-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does ranty mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    informalCharacterised by ranting.

    a ranty manifesto

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

Forms of ranty

  • rantier comparative
  • rantiest superlative

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

How common is ranty?

Ranty appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).

Where does ranty come from?

From rant + -y.

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