extinction
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,851
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
extinction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’éteindre ou état de ce qui s’éteint, de ce qui est éteint. Pronounced \ɛk.stɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #8,851 in French word frequency. Often confused with extraction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extinction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.stɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for extinction is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.stɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,851 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for extinction, with forms such as "etxinction", "exitnction", and "exticntion". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "extraction", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is extinction, spelled E-X-T-I-N-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’éteindre ou état de ce qui s’éteint, de ce qui est éteint.
- 2État de la chaux quand elle cesse d’être vive par hydratation.
- 3Épuisement, lassitude.
- 4Action d'abolir, d'anéantir, de mettre fin.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etxinction,exitnction,exticntion,extincction,extinciton,extinctino,extinctionn,extinctoin,extincttion,extinnction,extintcion,extniction,exttinction,exxtinction,xetinction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for extinction
Misspelling Variants of "extinction"
Frequency rank: #8,851 in French
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