tracas
\tʁa.ka\
The verdict
“tracas” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,574. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,574
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement accompagné d’embarras, le plus souvent pour des choses de peu d’importance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tracas · tracas · French
tracas · rank #29,574 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,574
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH touts
Nearest frequency peer: touts (-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 « tracas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tolérée
tolérée
70,430 corpus weight
- torsion
torsion
70,429 corpus weight
- touts
touts
70,428 corpus weight
- tracas
tracas
70,427 corpus weight
- transpirer
transpirer
70,426 corpus weight
- transposer
transposer
70,425 corpus weight
What this shows « tracas » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tracas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tracas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tracas (IPA \tʁa.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,574 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tracas, with forms such as "rtacas", "tarcas", and "traacs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trucs", "trace", "trans", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tracas, spelled T-R-A-C-A-S.
Definition
- 1Mouvement accompagné d’embarras, le plus souvent pour des choses de peu d’importance.
- 2Souci, peine, fatigue.
- 3Ouverture dans le plancher d'un atelier, d'une usine, par laquelle on fait passer des marchandises, trappe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tracas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a bien du tracas dans cette maison.
Il est dans le tracas du déménagement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtacas
- tarcas
- traacs
- tracass
- traccas
- tracsa
- trcaas
- trracas
- ttracas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tracas - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tracas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).