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Extra vs Extry - What's the difference?

extra | extry |

As adjectives the difference between extra and extry

is that extra is beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary while extry is extra.

As an adverb extra

is to an extraordinary degree.

As a noun extra

is a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry.

extra

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
    • extra''' work; '''extra pay
  • (dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.

    • Derived terms

    * extraness

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (informal) To an extraordinary degree.
    • That day he ran to school extra fast.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry.
  • An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle.
    • extra''', '''extra , read all about it!
  • A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.

    • Derived terms

    * wuxtry

    Derived terms

    * extra credit English degree adverbs ----

    extry

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (dialectal) extra
  • * {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=A Young Man in a Hurry, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Lord," he said, "it being Thanksgiving, I do hereby give Thee a few extry thanks." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Edith Van Dyne, title=Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The crackers come extry , Mr. Merrick," said the landlady, "but seein' as milk's cheap I thought you might like 'em." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Thomas Hardy, title=A Changed Man, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage='Very thoughtful of 'ee, only 'twas not necessary, for we had just laid in an extry stock of eatables and drinkables in preparation for the coming event.' }}