extraire

/\ɛks.tʁɛʁ\/ verb

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.

Key facts for extraire
PropertyValue
Headwordextraire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛks.tʁɛʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,852
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of extraire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Tirer ou retirer une chose d’un lieu, d’un corps dans lequel elle s’est formée ou introduite.
  2. 2
    Tirer d’un livre, d’un registre, d’un acte, etc., les passages, les renseignements dont on a besoin.
  3. 3
    Tirer, séparer par quelque opération chimique une substance simple ou composée d’un corps dont elle faisait partie.
  4. 4
    Effectuer certaines formes de calcul, en particulier itératif, notamment pour le calcul de racine, carrée ou cubique, qui sont chacune/une fonction implicite.
  5. 5
    Retirer, 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"

etxraire8exrtaire8extarire8extraier8extrairre9extrarie8extriare8extrraire9
Misspelling Variants of "extraire"

Frequency rank: #8,852 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "extraire"?
"extraire" is spelled E-X-T-R-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛks.tʁɛʁ\.
What does "extraire" mean?
As a verb, "extraire" means: Tirer ou retirer une chose d’un lieu, d’un corps dans lequel elle s’est formée ou introduite.
What words are commonly confused with "extraire"?
"extraire" is commonly confused with "extrait", "extraits", "extraite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "extraire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "extraire" is \ɛks.tʁɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "extraire" come from?
"extraire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.