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How to spell extract

What it means: To obtain something from a source.

In a sentence: The bee will extract sweet nectar from the flower. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as exctract or extrakt.

Same family: extraction, extractor, attract, contract, distract. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Extract” comes from Latin *extrahere*, meaning “to draw out,” from *ex-* (“out”) and *trahere* (“to pull”). The same root *-tract-* appears in words like “attract,” “detract,” and “tractor,” all involving a sense of pulling or drawing.

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tractor · subtract · retract · distract

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