grandiloquência
Portuguese, noun/ɡɾɐ̃.d͡ʒi.loˈkwẽ.sjɐ/
grandiloquência is spelled G-R-A-N-D-I-L-O-Q-U-Ê-N-C-I-A (15 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written Portuguese, the 205,610th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grandiloquência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “grandiloquence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualidade do estilo muito elevado, grandioso”.
What does grandiloquência mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegrandiloquence
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. qualidade do estilo muito elevado, grandioso
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of grandiloquência
- grandiloquências plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grandiloquência?
- Brazil /ɡɾɐ̃.d͡ʒi.loˈkwẽ.sjɐ/
- Portugal /ɡɾɐ̃.di.luˈkwẽ.sjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to grandiloquência
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grandiloquência in Portuguese?
grandiloquência appears about once in every 54 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).