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snobbishness

noun

snobbishness is spelled S-N-O-B-B-I-S-H-N-E-S-S: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, snobbishness means “The state or quality of being snobbish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of snobbishness is snobbishnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in snobbishness?

Letters12: S-N-O-B-B-I-S-H-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 24 million words; the 148,541st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is snobbishness?

Snobbishness appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).

Forms of snobbishness

  • snobbishnesses plural

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

What does snobbishness mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The state or quality of being snobbish.

  2. 2

    The result or product of being snobbish.

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

Snobbishness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense state or quality:

LanguageWords
Frenchsnobisme
Spanishesnobismo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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