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extrusive

adjective, noun

extrusive is spelled E-X-T-R-U-S-I-V-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, extrusive means “Jutting out; extruding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in extrusive?

Letters9: E-X-T-R-U-S-I-V-E
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is extrusive?

Extrusive appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).

Forms of extrusive

  • more extrusive comparative
  • most extrusive superlative
  • extrusives plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does extrusive mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Jutting out; extruding.

  2. 2

    Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, on to the Earth's surface to lie atop existing rocks.

noun

  1. 1

    Rock which has been formed through volcanic extrusion.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Extrusive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense jutting out or extruding:

LanguageWords
Frenchextrusif
Spanishextrusivo

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.

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