extravagant
/ɪkˈstɹævəɡənt/adjective
extravagant is spelled E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is extravagent: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Extravagant is an adjective meaning “Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign”.
How many letters and syllables are in extravagant?
| Letters | 11: E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,122nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, extravagent, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 extravagant?
Extravagant is spelled E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for extravagant 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 extravagant?
Extravagant appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,122nd 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 extravagant?
- /ɪkˈstɹævəɡənt/
Extravagant has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-AcpoKrane-extravagant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of extravagant
- more extravagant comparative
- most extravagant superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does extravagant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
- 2
Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
- 3
Exorbitant
- 4
Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
an extravagant man
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Extravagant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense exceeding the bounds of something:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | extravagant |
| German | extravagant |
| Portuguese | extravagante |
| Spanish | extravagante |
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 extravagant come from?
Inherited from Middle English extravagaunt, from Middle French extravagant and its etymon Medieval Latin extravagans, present participle of extravagor (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagor (“to wander, stray”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).