extravagantly

adv

"extravagantly" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“extravagantly” is an uncommon English word, ranked #55,424 in English word frequency and used as an adverb.

#55,424
frequency rank, English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - With lavish expenditure or behaviour; in an extravagant manner.

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Key facts for extravagantly
PropertyValue
Headwordextravagantly
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdverb
Letters13
Frequency rank#55,424
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “extravagantly” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). extravagantly lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for extravagantly is 13 letters long, classified as an adverb. Corpus data places it at rank #55,424 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "With lavish expenditure or behaviour; in an extravagant manner.".

No misspelling variants are generated for extravagantly in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From extravagant + -ly. The correct English form is extravagantly, spelled E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-T-L-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    With lavish expenditure or behaviour; in an extravagant manner.

Etymology

From extravagant + -ly.

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "extravagantly"?
"extravagantly" is spelled E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-T-L-Y.
What does "extravagantly" mean?
As an adverb, "extravagantly" means: With lavish expenditure or behaviour; in an extravagant manner.
What is the origin of the word "extravagantly"?
From extravagant + -ly. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Using “extravagantly”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-T-L-Y - 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list