tracker
/ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/noun
tracker is spelled T-R-A-C-K-E-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tracker means “A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tracker is trackers.
How many letters and syllables are in tracker?
| Letters | 7: T-R-A-C-K-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.3 times per million words; the 12,397th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is tracker?
Tracker appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tracker?
- /ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/
Tracker has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tracker.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of tracker
- trackers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tracker mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
- 2
USA person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.
- 3
AustraliaAn Indigenous Australian employed by the law to track down fugitives and missing persons.
- 4
In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
- 5
A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.
- 6
A musician who writes music in a tracker.
- 7
A computer program that monitors something.
- 8
Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tracker in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense agent noun of track:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pisteur, traqueur, poursuivant |
| German | Aufspürer, Aufspürerin, Fährtenfinder, Fährtenfinderin, Fährtenleser, Fährtenleserin |
| Portuguese | rastreador, rastreadora |
| Spanish | rastreador, rastreadora, huellero |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does tracker come from?
From track + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).