extol
/ɪkˈstəʊl/
"extol" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“extol” is an uncommon English word, ranked #66,649 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #66,649
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To praise; to make high.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extol |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪkˈstəʊl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “extol” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for extol is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪkˈstəʊl/. Corpus data places it at rank #66,649 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To praise; to make high.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for extol, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin extollō (“elevate, raise high”). The correct English form is extol, spelled E-X-T-O-L.
Definition
- 1To praise; to make high.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin extollō (“elevate, raise high”).
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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Using “extol”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-X-T-O-L - 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.