extremophile
/ɛkˈʃtɹiməˌfaɪ̯əl/noun
extremophile is spelled E-X-T-R-E-M-O-P-H-I-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is extremeophile: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Extremophile is a noun meaning “Any of many organisms that live under extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, salinity, etc; many are…”. The plural of extremophile is extremophiles.
How many letters and syllables are in extremophile?
| Letters | 12: E-X-T-R-E-M-O-P-H-I-L-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, extremeophile, 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 extremophile?
Extremophile is spelled E-X-T-R-E-M-O-P-H-I-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for extremophile 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 extremophile?
Extremophile appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 extremophile?
- US /ɛkˈʃtɹiməˌfaɪ̯əl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-StalJosA-Extremophile.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of extremophile
- extremophiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does extremophile mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of many organisms that live under extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, salinity, etc; many are autotrophs; some are commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Extremophile in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense organism that lives under extreme conditions:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | extrêmophile |
| Portuguese | extremófilo |
| Spanish | extremófilo |
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 extremophile come from?
From extreme + -o- + -phile.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).