extravagantly
"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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| Headword | extravagantly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #55,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “extravagantly” sits in English frequency
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
- 1With lavish expenditure or behaviour; in an extravagant manner.
Etymology
From extravagant + -ly.
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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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Using “extravagantly”
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- 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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