extrapoler
\eks.tʁa.pɔ.le\
The verdict
“extrapoler” is uncommon French (frequency #54,577 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,577
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déduire ou généraliser à partir de données partielles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extrapoler · extrapoler · French
extrapoler · rank #54,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,577
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH externalités
Nearest frequency peer: externalités (-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 « extrapoler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exhaustivité
exhaustivité
45,427 corpus weight
- expressionn…
expressionnisme
45,426 corpus weight
- externalités
externalités
45,425 corpus weight
- extrapoler
extrapoler
45,424 corpus weight
- fabulous
fabulous
45,423 corpus weight
- faillis
faillis
45,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « extrapoler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extrapoler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \eks.tʁa.pɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « extrapoler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
extrapoler is uncommon French at frequency #54,577 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \eks.tʁa.pɔ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for extrapoler in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is extrapoler, spelled E-X-T-R-A-P-O-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Déduire ou généraliser à partir de données partielles.
- 2Estimer des données dans une zone où aucune donnée n'est disponible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how extrapoler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a un danger à extrapoler, c'est celui d'administrer le traitement à des populations ayant un plus faible risque spontané d'accident.
Avançons maintenant une hypothèse, aussi forte d'ailleurs que controversable : extrapolant un peu facilement le fameux « la culture, c'est ce qui reste quand on a tout oublié », il y a de sérieuses raisons de dire que, tout compte fait, ce qui résidait au fondement des Humanités c'était la formation de l'esprit critique ([…]).
This word in other languages
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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