tracasser
\tʁa.ka.se\
The verdict
“tracasser” is uncommon French (frequency #88,180 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,180
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agiter, solliciter ou remuer longuement quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tracasser · tracasser · French
tracasser · rank #88,180 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,180
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tove
Nearest frequency peer: tove (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tracasser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tooth
tooth
11,825 corpus weight
- toru
toru
11,824 corpus weight
- tove
tove
11,822 corpus weight
- tracasser
tracasser
11,821 corpus weight
- transbordeur
transbordeur
11,820 corpus weight
- translator
translator
11,818 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tracasser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tracasser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁa.ka.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tracasser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tracasser is uncommon French at frequency #88,180 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁa.ka.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tracasser in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tracasser, spelled T-R-A-C-A-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Agiter, solliciter ou remuer longuement quelque chose.
- 2Aller et venir, s’agiter, se tourmenter pour peu de chose.
- 3ou Inquiéter ou tourmenter quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tracasser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hervé les avait vus distinctement tracasser la grille et un grincement de ferrailles lui apprit qu'ils l’avaient fermé à clé, derrière eux, après l’avoir ouverte en arrivant, et qu'ils étaient en train de la rouvrir pour s’en aller.
Il ne peut se tenir en repos, il tracasse sans cesse.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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