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extra-curricular

adjective

extra-curricular is spelled E-X-T-R-A-C-U-R-R-I-C-U-L-A-R: 15 letters. As an adjective, extra-curricular means “Alternative form of extracurricular” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in extra-curricular?

Letters15: E-X-T-R-A-C-U-R-R-I-C-U-L-A-R
In writinga phrase: the frequency list counts single words
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search

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).

Words people confuse with extra-curricular

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

Also written: extracurricular (one word or two).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What does extra-curricular mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Alternative form of extracurricular.

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

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