extorquer
\ɛk.stɔʁ.ke\
The verdict
“extorquer” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,034. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,034
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tirer, obtenir par force, par violence, par menaces ou par tout moyen de pression.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extorquer · extorquer · French
extorquer · rank #45,034 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,034
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expédiées
Nearest frequency peer: expédiées (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « extorquer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- explorées
explorées
54,970 corpus weight
- exprimera
exprimera
54,969 corpus weight
- expédiées
expédiées
54,968 corpus weight
- extorquer
extorquer
54,967 corpus weight
- factices
factices
54,965 corpus weight
- factuel
factuel
54,964 corpus weight
What this shows « extorquer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extorquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.stɔʁ.ke\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « extorquer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around extorquer (IPA \ɛk.stɔʁ.ke\), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,034 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tirer, obtenir par force, par violence, par menaces ou par tout moyen de pression.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for extorquer, with forms such as "etxorquer", "exotrquer", and "extoqruer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is extorquer, spelled E-X-T-O-R-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tirer, obtenir par force, par violence, par menaces ou par tout moyen de pression.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how extorquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce devait être un fripon, car une fois déjà, un autre acheteur de duvet et soumissionnaire de saindoux avait fait nombre de dupes et extorqué plus de cent roubles à l’archiprêtresse.
Non content de leur extorquer de l’argent par tous les moyens, on chercha, dans le Midi, à les déposséder des biens immeubles qu’ils détenaient en vertu d’usages très anciens.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxorquer
- exotrquer
- extoqruer
- extorqeur
- extorqquer
- extorquerr
- extorqure
- extorrquer
- extoruqer
- extroquer
- exttorquer
- exxtorquer
- xetorquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of extorquer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).