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ecstasy

ec·sta·sy/ˈɛkstəsi/noun, verb

ecstasy is spelled E-C-S-T-A-S-Y, 3 syllables: ec·sta·sy. The wrong spelling people search most is extacy: about 490 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Ecstasy is a noun meaning “Intense pleasure”. The plural of ecstasy is ecstasies.

How many letters and syllables are in ecstasy?

Letters7: E-C-S-T-A-S-Y
Syllables3: ec·sta·sy
In writing3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched2; the most searched, extacy, about 490 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell ecstasy?

Ecstasy is spelled E-C-S-T-A-S-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for ecstasy in either form.

ecstasythe right spelling3,590 searches a month
extacya missing c, x in place of s, c in place of s490 searches a month
exstacyx in place of c, c in place of s160 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is ecstasy?

Ecstasy appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th 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).

How do you pronounce ecstasy?

  • US /ˈɛkstəsi/
  • Australia /ˈekstəsi/
  • /ˈɛkstəse/

Ecstasy has 3 syllables, split ec·sta·sy in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En_US_ecstasy.wav, En-au-ecstasy.ogg, En-au-Ecstasy.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of ecstasy

  • ecstasies plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • ecstasying participle, present
  • ecstasied participle, past

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

What does ecstasy mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Intense pleasure.

  2. 2

    A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.

    an ecstasy of remorse

  3. 3

    A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.

  4. 4

    obsoleteViolent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.

  5. 5

    slangThe drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.

  6. 6

    datedA state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible.

verb

  1. 1

    To experience intense pleasure.

  2. 2

    To cause intense pleasure in.

noun

as Ecstasy
  1. 1

    slangAlternative letter-case form of ecstasy (“drug”).

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

How do you abbreviate ecstasy?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of ecstasy: XTC.

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

Ecstasy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchextase (intense pleasure), ecstasy, exta (recreational drug)
GermanEkstase (intense pleasure), Ecstasy, Teile, Pillen (recreational drug)
Portugueseêxtase (intense pleasure), ecstasy (recreational drug)
Spanishéxtasis, éxtasi (intense pleasure)

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.

Where does ecstasy come from?

From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis), from ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “to displace”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).

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

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