extravasation
/ɪkˌstɹævəˈseɪʃən/noun
extravasation is spelled E-X-T-R-A-V-A-S-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is extravastion: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 74 of all searches for the word. Extravasation is a noun meaning “The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues”. The plural of extravasation is extravasations.
How many letters and syllables are in extravasation?
| Letters | 13: E-X-T-R-A-V-A-S-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, extravastion, about 40 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 extravasation?
Extravasation is spelled E-X-T-R-A-V-A-S-A-T-I-O-N. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 37 of the searches for extravasation 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 extravasation?
Extravasation appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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 extravasation?
- /ɪkˌstɹævəˈseɪʃən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of extravasation
- extravasations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does extravasation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- 2
The eruption of molten lava from a volcanic vent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does extravasation come from?
From extravasate (“let out or force out (blood or fluid)”) + -ion; further etymology at extravasate. Attested from the 17th century.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).