Blatancy

Definition: Blatancy

Blatancy

Noun

1. The property of being both obvious and offensive; "the blatancy of his attempt to whitewash the crime was unforgivable".

Date "blatancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

"Blatancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blatancy" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

Language		Translations for "blatancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhurmë (ado, bang, bobbery, Chirm, clamor, clamour, din, hoopla, jangle, noise, noisiness, racket, smash, sound, sputter, to-do, tumult, uproar). (various references)

Bulgarian		кресливост, вулгарност (bad form, commonness, scurrility, vulgarism, vulgarity). (various references)

Czech		řvavost. (various references)

German		unverschämtheit (barefacedness, brazenness, effrontery, exorbitance, gall, impertinence, impudence, infamy, insolence, nerve, offensiveness, outrageousness, presumption, presumptuousness, rudeness, sauciness), unverfrorenheit (audacity, boldness, coolness, insolence), offensichtlichkeit (obviousness), krassheit, eklatanz. (various references)

Greek		μυκηθμόσ, μούγκρισμα, φύσημα (blast, blow, breath, flurry, gust, heart murmur, puff, puffing, snort, wake, whiff). (various references)

Hebrew		צעק� ות (boisterousness, flamboyance, flamboyancy, noisiness, rowdiness, shouting). (various references)

Hungarian		ordenáréság (grossness). (various references)

Indonesian		keributan (ado, affray, boisteriousness, brawl, cain, commotion, hubbub). (various references)

Italian		vistosit� (flashiness, gaudiness, loudness, showiness), evidenza (emphasis, evidence, obviousness, plainness), chiasso (clamor, clamour, noise, rumpus, splatterdash, uproar). (various references)

Manx		kiaullaneys (ado, ado strife, stridency), kiaullane (bell, bell small, clamourer, clarion, handbell, noise in the ear, orchestra, racket, squeaker, toll, toll of bell, tolling), foshlid (frankness, ingeniousness). (various references)

Pig Latin		atancyblay

Portuguese		barulho (ado, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, clutter, cracking, din, Donnybrook, fracas, fuss, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurrah, jazz, knockabout, noise, pother, racket, rattle, roistering, rout, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, to-do, tumult, uproar), banalidade gritante. (various references)

Russian		крикливость. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bučnost (boisterousness, loudness, noisiness), drečavost (flashiness, loudness). (various references)

Spanish		evidencia (accessible evidence, cogency, evidence, exhibit, obviousness, palpability, proof), descargo (acquittal, discharge, quittance, release), aspecto chillón. (various references)

Swedish		skränighet. (various references)

Turkish		yaygaracılık, gürültücülük (boisterousness, noisiness). (various references)

Ukranian		крикливість, очевидність (apparency, appearance, evidence, openness, patency). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính hay la lối sự rõ r� nh r� nh, sự hiển nhiên (flagrancy, patency). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Blatancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balancy, Baltaci, blatan, blatency, blu-tac. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "blatancy" (pronounced 'Bla"tan*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-l-n-t-y"
	-3 letters: alant, banal, banty, cabal, canal, canty, natal, nyala, tabla.
	-4 letters: ably, acta, acyl, alan, alba, anal, anta, baal, blat, cant, clan, clay, cyan, lacy, tala, talc.
	-5 letters: aal, aba, aby, act, ala, alb, alt, ana, ant, any, baa, bal, ban, bat, bay, cab, can, cat, cay, lab, lac, lat, lay, nab, nay, tab.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-l-n-t-y"
	+2 letters: actionably.
	+3 letters: accountably, botanically, intractably.
	+4 letters: cleanability, constabulary, incapability, unacceptably, uncharitably.
	+5 letters: carbonylation, carboxylating, carboxylation, changeability, confabulatory, machinability, polycarbonate, syllabicating, syllabication, unaccountably.
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