extensor
"extensor" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“extensor” is uncommon English (frequency #73,171 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,171
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or body part.
Corpus desk
Index EN-extensor · extensor · English
extensor · rank #73,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,171
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH exorcised
Nearest frequency peer: exorcised (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “extensor”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Esparza
Esparza
26,836 corpus weight
- exorcised
exorcised
26,831 corpus weight
- extensor
extensor
26,830 corpus weight
- fantasyland
fantasyland
26,829 corpus weight
- Faversham
Faversham
26,827 corpus weight
- feist
feist
26,825 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “extensor” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extensor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “extensor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
extensor is uncommon English at frequency #73,171 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or body part.".
extensor has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is extensor, spelled E-X-T-E-N-S-O-R.
Definition
- 1A muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or body part.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how extensor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.
The bird is then off on a mad dash like an aquatic Roadrunner cartoon: It spreads its legs wide with strong extensor thrusts and long forward strides, and it then steps in the water four or five times, increasing its speed and flapping its wings until it achieves liftoff with a final drag of its toes in the water.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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