extraient
\ɛks.tʁɛ\
The verdict
“extraient” is uncommon French (frequency #70,628 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,628
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de extraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extraient · extraient · French
extraient · rank #70,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,628
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH extrémismes
Nearest frequency peer: extrémismes (+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 « extraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- except
except
29,376 corpus weight
- expirant
expirant
29,375 corpus weight
- extraient
extraient
29,373 corpus weight
- extrémismes
extrémismes
29,372 corpus weight
- fairplay
fairplay
29,371 corpus weight
- famé
famé
29,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « extraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛks.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « extraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
extraient is uncommon French at frequency #70,628 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛks.tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for extraient, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is extraient, spelled E-X-T-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de extraire.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de extraire.
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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