How to spell extravagant
extravagant
Not extravagent.
The trap
The word extravagant ends -ant, and the misspelling extravagent writes the ending as -ent. The ending is unstressed and sounds the same either way, and extravagance keeps the A.
-ant and -ent are the same sound when the syllable is unstressed. Which one a word takes is usually learned with the word, and its -ance or -ence relative keeps the same vowel (confident, confidence).
What it means
adjective. Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources, or exceeding what is reasonable or appropriate.
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