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extortionous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ex-tor-tionous
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Committing extortion.

Obsolete

Etymology

From extortion + -ous.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more extortionous (comparative) most extortionous (superlative)

Questions

What does extortionous mean?
Committing extortion.
Where does extortionous come from?
From extortion + -ous.

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