jactancia
[xakˈt̪ãnsja]
The verdict
“jactancia” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #93,188 among 645 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,188
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alabanza de uno mismo, presunción, actitud de manifestar admiración por los propios logros o cualidades.
Corpus desk
Index ES-jactancia · jactancia · Spanish
jactancia · rank #93,188 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,188
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH jagua
Nearest frequency peer: jagua (+2 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “jactancia”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Izu
Izu
6,818 corpus weight
- jactancia
jactancia
6,813 corpus weight
- jagua
jagua
6,811 corpus weight
- jail
jail
6,810 corpus weight
- Jil
Jil
6,806 corpus weight
- jugase
jugase
6,804 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “jactancia” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jactancia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [xakˈt̪ãnsja] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “jactancia” en español
Rare enough to double-check
jactancia is uncommon Spanish at frequency #93,188 among 645 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [xakˈt̪ãnsja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alabanza de uno mismo, presunción, actitud de manifestar admiración por los propios logros o cualidades.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jactancia in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is jactancia, spelled J-A-C-T-A-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1Alabanza de uno mismo, presunción, actitud de manifestar admiración por los propios logros o cualidades.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jactancia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«El egoísmo, la jactancia no eran defectos, sino cualidades: había que exigir la adulación y el servilismo, despreciar y humillar la dignidad humana».
«En algunos textos de entonces, la jactancia del “pobres pero honrados” adquiere tonos fanáticos, mitad de esperpento, mitad de rabieta infantil: […]».
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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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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