extraction
French, noun/ɛk.stʁak.sjɔ̃/
extraction is spelled E-X-T-R-A-C-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears 9.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,166th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Extraction is a French feminine noun meaning “extraction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’extraire, de retirer”.
What does extraction mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineextraction
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’extraire, de retirer. 2. Action de retirer une chose du corps. 3. Opération par laquelle on trouve la racine d’un nombre, ou par laquelle on trouve les entiers contenus dans un nombre fractionnaire. 4. Origine d’où quelqu’un tire sa naissance.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of extraction
- extractions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce extraction?
- /ɛk.stʁak.sjɔ̃/
- \ɛk.stʁak.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to extraction
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is extraction in French?
extraction appears 9.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).