extraire
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,852
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
extraire is aFrenchverb. It means: Tirer ou retirer une chose d’un lieu, d’un corps dans lequel elle s’est formée ou introduite. Pronounced \ɛks.tʁɛʁ\. It ranks #8,852 in French word frequency. Often confused with extrait and extraits.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛks.tʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for extraire is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛks.tʁɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,852 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for extraire, with forms such as "etxraire", "exrtaire", and "extarire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "extrait", "extraits", "extraite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is extraire, spelled E-X-T-R-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tirer ou retirer une chose d’un lieu, d’un corps dans lequel elle s’est formée ou introduite.
- 2Tirer d’un livre, d’un registre, d’un acte, etc., les passages, les renseignements dont on a besoin.
- 3Tirer, séparer par quelque opération chimique une substance simple ou composée d’un corps dont elle faisait partie.
- 4Effectuer certaines formes de calcul, en particulier itératif, notamment pour le calcul de racine, carrée ou cubique, qui sont chacune/une fonction implicite.
- 5Retirer, dans le sens de recopier, un ou plusieurs fichiers d’une archive.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etxraire,exrtaire,extarire,extraier,extrairre,extrarie,extriare,extrraire,exttraire,exxtraire,xetraire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for extraire
Misspelling Variants of "extraire"
Frequency rank: #8,852 in French
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