# tracker

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #12,518

## Definitions
1. Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
2. Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
3. Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
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. A computer program that monitors something.
9. A tracker mortgage.

## Etymology
From track + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **tracks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracker-vs-tracks)
- **tucker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracker-vs-tucker)
- **trader** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracker-vs-trader)
- **trailer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracker-vs-trailer)
- **trainer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracker-vs-trainer)
- **tractor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracker-vs-tractor)
- **trapper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracker-vs-trapper)
- **trucker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracker-vs-trucker)
- **trawler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracker-vs-trawler)
- **trickery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracker-vs-trickery)
- **track** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/track-vs-tracker)
- **trace** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trace-vs-tracker)
- **taker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/taker-vs-tracker)
- **traces** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/traces-vs-tracker)
- **traced** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/traced-vs-tracker)
- **tanker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tanker-vs-tracker)
- **Tracey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracey-vs-tracker)
- **tracer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracer-vs-tracker)
- **ticker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ticker-vs-tracker)
- **talker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/talker-vs-tracker)

## Common misspellings (11)
`rtacker`, `tarcker`, `traccker`, `tracekr`, `trackerr`, `trackker`, `trackre`, `trakcer`, `trcaker`, `trracker`, `ttracker`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tracker