extramarital
\ɛks.tʁa.ma.ʁi.tal\
The verdict
“extramarital” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extraconjugal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extramarital · extramarital · French
extramarital · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extramarital |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.tʁa.ma.ʁi.tal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
extramarital is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛks.tʁa.ma.ʁi.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Extraconjugal.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for extramarital in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is extramarital, spelled E-X-T-R-A-M-A-R-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Extraconjugal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how extramarital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une tribune publiée mardi dans le Washington Post, Jill Kelley et son mari Scott affirment que « l’insinuation selon laquelle Jill entretenait une liaison extramaritale est aussi ridicule que blessante pour notre famille ».
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.