traçage

\tʁa.saʒ\

/\tʁa.saʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“traçage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,659
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tracer, résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tracage · traçage · French

traçage · rank #47,659 · 10 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,659
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH transiger

Nearest frequency peer: transiger (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « traçage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « traçage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

traçage vs trace
57% similar
traçage vs tracée
57% similar
traçage vs triage
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for traçage
PropertyValue
Headwordtraçage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁa.saʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#47,659
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « traçage »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).traçagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « transiger » (#47,658), « triangulation » (#47,660), « transhumance » (#47,657). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « traçage » est au #47,659. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around traçage (IPA \tʁa.saʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,659 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for traçage, with forms such as "rtaçage", "tarçage", and "traaçge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "trace", "tracée", "triage", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is traçage, spelled T-R-A-Ç-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de tracer, résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    En particulier: Suivi.
  3. 3
    En particulier: Suivi en continu des déplacements de personnes, d’animaux ou d’objets par la géolocalisation.
  4. 4
    Le fait de déterminer la forme d’une tôle devant être mise en forme par pliage ou roulage, et de dessiner le contour avant de procéder à son découpage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how traçage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le magistrat avait aussi mis en exergue l’usage par l’accusé du téléphone portable de la victime et de ses cartes bancaires, dont les traçages « se superposent à l’itinéraire » d’Aziz Hamri, notamment entre mai et juin 2006 en Espagne et au Maroc, dans la région de Fès où l’accusé se trouvait alors.
  2. Cela est rendu réalisable par l’extension massive de capteurs sur toutes les surfaces possibles, du corps aux objets domestiques, conduisant à un traçage intégral de la vie.

This word in other languages

tracing(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtaçage
  • tarçage
  • traaçge
  • tracage
  • traçaeg
  • traçagge
  • traçgae
  • trraçage
  • trçaage
  • ttraçage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of traçage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

rtaçage2tarçage2traaçge2tracage1traçaeg2traçagge1traçgae2trraçage1
Edit distance from "traçage"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "traçage"?
"traçage" is spelled T-R-A-Ç-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁa.saʒ\.
What does "traçage" mean?
As a noun, "traçage" means: Action de tracer, résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "traçage"?
"traçage" is commonly confused with "trace", "tracée", "triage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "traçage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "traçage" is \tʁa.saʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "traçage" come from?
"traçage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "traçage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list