extinctions
\ɛk.stɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“extinctions” is uncommon French (frequency #57,259 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,259
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de extinction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extinctions · extinctions · French
extinctions · rank #57,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,259
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expliquons
Nearest frequency peer: expliquons (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « extinctions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- examinateurs
examinateurs
42,745 corpus weight
- expectative
expectative
42,744 corpus weight
- expliquons
expliquons
42,743 corpus weight
- extinctions
extinctions
42,742 corpus weight
- extrader
extrader
42,741 corpus weight
- exécutives
exécutives
42,740 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « extinctions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extinctions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.stɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « extinctions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
extinctions is uncommon French at frequency #57,259 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.stɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de extinction.".
No misspelling variants are generated for extinctions in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is extinctions, spelled E-X-T-I-N-C-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de extinction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how extinctions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’acide oxalique concentré donne, avec les liqueurs contenant du strontium, à chaud des cristaux monocliniques ; à froid des octaèdres mêlés de tables pseudo-rectangulaires, à extinctions monocliniques.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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