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extraocular

adjective

extraocular is spelled E-X-T-R-A-O-C-U-L-A-R: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, extraocular means “Situated outside of or away from the eyes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in extraocular?

Letters11: E-X-T-R-A-O-C-U-L-A-R
In writingabout once in every 24 million words; the 148,541st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in 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).

How common is extraocular?

Extraocular appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of extraocular

  • extra-ocular

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

What does extraocular mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Situated outside of or away from the eyes.

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

Where does extraocular come from?

From extra- + ocular.

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

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