extraction
\ɛk.stʁak.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“extraction” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,187. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,187
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’extraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extraction · extraction · French
extraction · rank #7,187 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,187
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH femelle
Nearest frequency peer: femelle (+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 « extraction »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- expliquent
expliquent
92,818 corpus weight
- exportations
exportations
92,816 corpus weight
- extraction
extraction
92,814 corpus weight
- femelle
femelle
92,813 corpus weight
- gains
gains
92,812 corpus weight
- génocide
génocide
92,811 corpus weight
What this shows « extraction » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extraction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.stʁak.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « extraction »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around extraction (IPA \ɛk.stʁak.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,187 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for extraction, with forms such as "etxraction", "exrtaction", and "extarction". 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 also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "extradition", "extinction", "effraction", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is extraction, spelled E-X-T-R-A-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’extraire.
- 2Action de retirer une chose du corps.
- 3Opération par laquelle on trouve la racine d’un nombre, ou par laquelle on trouve les entiers contenus dans un nombre fractionnaire.
- 4Origine d’où quelqu’un tire sa naissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how extraction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On trouve également de l’huile grasse dans les noyaux et dans les pépins ; elle est presque partout combinée avec le mucilage qu’elle entraîne en partie au moment de l’extraction.
D’autres méthodes permettent de mesurer ou d’estimer la phytodisponibilité des métaux : cultures tests, tests microbiologiques, méthodes isotopiques, extractions chimiques sélectives et modélisation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxraction
- exrtaction
- extarction
- extracction
- extraciton
- extractino
- extractionn
- extractoin
- extracttion
- extratcion
- extrcation
- extrraction
- exttraction
- exxtraction
- xetraction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of extraction - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).