extinguishment
"extinguishment" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“extinguishment” is uncommon English (frequency #91,480 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,480
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
Corpus desk
Index EN-extinguishment · extinguishment · English
extinguishment · rank #91,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,480
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH eyeless
Nearest frequency peer: eyeless (+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 “extinguishment”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- erf
erf
8,527 corpus weight
- essentialist
essentialist
8,524 corpus weight
- evisceration
evisceration
8,523 corpus weight
- extinguishm…
extinguishment
8,521 corpus weight
- eyeless
eyeless
8,520 corpus weight
- faired
faired
8,515 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “extinguishment” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extinguishment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #91,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “extinguishment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
extinguishment is uncommon English at frequency #91,480 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
extinguishment has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From extinguish + -ment. The correct English form is extinguishment, spelled E-X-T-I-N-G-U-I-S-H-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- 2The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how extinguishment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]
Etymology
From extinguish + -ment.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).