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tractor

/ˈtɹæktɚ/noun, verb

tractor is spelled T-R-A-C-T-O-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tractor means “A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tractor is tractors.

How many letters and syllables are in tractor?

Letters7: T-R-A-C-T-O-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is tractor?

Tractor appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 tractor?

  • UK /ˈtɹæktə/
  • US /ˈtɹæktɚ/

Tractor 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: En-us-tractor.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tractor?

10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tractor from its last stressed vowel (/æktəɹ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of tractor

  • tractors plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • tractoring participle, present
  • tractored participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tractor mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.

  2. 2

    A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.

  3. 3

    USA truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.

  4. 4

    Any piece of machinery that pulls something.

  5. 5

    An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.

  6. 6

    UKA British Rail Class 37 locomotive.

  7. 7

    archaicA metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.

verb

  1. 1

    To prepare (land) with a tractor.

  2. 2

    To drive a tractor.

  3. 3

    To move with a tractor beam.

  4. 4

    archaicTo treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Tractor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtracteur (farm vehicle)
GermanTraktor, Trecker, Schlepper (farm vehicle), Sattelzugmaschine (truck (or lorry) for pulling a trailer), Zugmaschine (any piece of machinery that pulls something)
Portuguesetrator (farm vehicle)
Spanishtractor, tractor agrícola, tractor agrario, agrotractor (farm vehicle), cabezal, tractocamión (truck (or lorry) for pulling a trailer)

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 tractor come from?

Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahō, trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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