Is there an English word meaning "the use of uncommon words" or similar?
Learn English – n English word meaning “the use of uncommon words”
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There's lexiphanic, which is using pretentious wording or language, but it doesn't have the sense of intermittence you wanted.
(I found the word by plugging "using long words" into a reverse dictionary. The first two results, sesquipedalian and sesquipedality, are also good, but they don't necessarily have a negative connotation like lexiphanic.)
The word you could be looking for is variant
Definition:
1 obsolete : variable
2 : manifesting variety, deviation, or disagreement
3 : varying usually slightly from the standard form
(examples) variant readings; variant spellings
Also, from google search:
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It depends on what you mean by "uncommon". Lexiphanicism is the use of excessive terminology, while patavinity is the use of local or provincial words.
(I hope you are not just looking for slang or jargon.)