Usage History of 'extortion'

The following chart shows how frequently 'extortion' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'extortion' occurred 6 times in books in 1520 and 48,719 times in 2008. From 1520 to 2008, the word 'extortion' was used a total of 1,174,337 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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