extradition
noun
extradition is spelled E-X-T-R-A-D-I-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is extradiction: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Extradition is a noun meaning “A formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government or jurisdiction is handed over to another…”. The plural of extradition is extraditions.
How many letters and syllables are in extradition?
| Letters | 11: E-X-T-R-A-D-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, extradiction, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell extradition?
Extradition is spelled E-X-T-R-A-D-I-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 40 of the searches for extradition in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is extradition?
Extradition appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st 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 extradition?
- US
Extradition has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-extradition.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of extradition
- extraditions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does extradition mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government or jurisdiction is handed over to another government or jurisdiction for trial or, if the suspect has already been tried and found guilty, to serve his or her sentence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Extradition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense process by which a criminal suspect is handed over to another government:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | extradition |
| German | Auslieferung |
| Portuguese | extradição |
| Spanish | extradición |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does extradition come from?
From French extradition, itself from Latin ex- + traditio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).