extractor
/ɪkˈstɹæktɚ/noun
extractor is spelled E-X-T-R-A-C-T-O-R: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,703rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, extractor means “A machine for clearing combs of honey” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of extractor is extractors.
How many letters and syllables are in extractor?
| Letters | 9: E-X-T-R-A-C-T-O-R |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 40,703rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is extractor?
Extractor appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,703rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce extractor?
- US /ɪkˈstɹæktɚ/
- UK /ɪkˈstɹæktə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-extractor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with extractor?
10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as extractor from its last stressed vowel (/æktəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of extractor
- extractors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does extractor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A machine for clearing combs of honey.
- 2
A device for rendering wax.
- 3
An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
- 4
A centrifugal drying machine.
- 5
A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
- 6
A particular kind of bipartite graph.
- 7
A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).