extinguishment
"extinguishment" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“extinguishment” is an uncommon English word, ranked #91,480 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #91,480
- frequency rank, English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
| 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) |
Where “extinguishment” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for extinguishment is 14 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #91,480 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “extinguishment”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-X-T-I-N-G-U-I-S-H-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.