Extraneous is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 720 anagrams from letters in extraneous (aeenorstux).
1630-40; Latin extrāneus external, foreign, equivalent to extr(a)- extra- + -ān(us) -an + -eus -eous
You know where you find a clear, neat story with no extraneous details?
There were no extraneous sublevels at all and that's just never happened before.
Divested of this extraneous business, the matter is a most simple one.
HE was evidently not to be taken in by extraneous sentiment.
To refuse to employ him is to impose an extraneous penalty on his convictions.
The whole stack was re-evaluated—a “one-time decision,” said a memo from the advisory council, due to “extraneous circumstances.”
There can be no doubt as to the region from which this extraneous civilization came.
She dilutes it with extraneous matter, and it is lost sight of.
But that it should also have been written, is an extraneous matter.
Her writing is marked by an utter lack of the extraneous, and bristles with a sense of the uncanny.
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