extravagance
ex·trav·a·gance/ɪkˈstɹævəɡən(t)s/noun
extravagance is spelled E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-C-E, 4 syllables: ex·trav·a·gance. The wrong spelling people search most is extravagence: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Extravagance is a noun meaning “Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money”. The plural of extravagance is extravagances.
How many letters and syllables are in extravagance?
| Letters | 12: E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: ex·trav·a·gance |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 36,565th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, extravagence, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell extravagance?
Extravagance is spelled E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for extravagance in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is extravagance?
Extravagance appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,565th 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).
How do you pronounce extravagance?
- /ɪkˈstɹævəɡən(t)s/
- /ɛkˈstɹævəɡən(t)s/
Extravagance has 4 syllables, split ex·trav·a·gance in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-extravagance.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of extravagance
- extravagances plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does extravagance mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- 2
Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- 3
Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.
That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Extravagance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | extravagance |
| Spanish | extravagancia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does extravagance come from?
Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagor (“to wander”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).