extrait
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,613
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
extrait is aFrenchnoun. It means: Substance qu’on a extraite d’une autre par quelque opération. Pronounced \ɛk.stʁɛ\. It ranks #2,613 in French word frequency. Often confused with extras and extraits.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.stʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for extrait is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.stʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,613 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for extrait, with forms such as "etxrait", "exrtait", and "extarit". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "extras", "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 extrait, spelled E-X-T-R-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Substance qu’on a extraite d’une autre par quelque opération.
- 2Parfum concentré.
- 3Ce qu’on tire de quelque livre, de quelque registre, de quelque acte, etc.
- 4Abrégé, sommaire, analyse.
- 5Le pluriel se dit de morceaux choisis d’auteurs.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etxrait,exrtait,extarit,extraitt,extrati,extriat,extrrait,exttrait,exxtrait,xetrait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for extrait
Misspelling Variants of "extrait"
Frequency rank: #2,613 in French
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