trace
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,369
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
trace is aFrenchnoun. It means: Marque ou empreinte laissée sur le sol par le passage d’une personne, d’un animal ou d’un objet. Pronounced \tʁas\. It ranks #3,369 in French word frequency. Often confused with tre and truc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁas\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for trace is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁas\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,369 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for trace, with forms such as "rtace", "tarce", and "tracce". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tre", "truc", "tram", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is trace, spelled T-R-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marque ou empreinte laissée sur le sol par le passage d’une personne, d’un animal ou d’un objet.
- 2Marque qui résulte d’une action.
- 3Impression laissée par un événement.
- 4Ce qui subsiste en faible quantité ou en moindre proportion.
- 5Preuve matérielle.
- 6Somme des éléments diagonaux d’une matrice carrée.
- 7Dessin de fils servant d’armature générale dans la dentelle à l’aiguille.
- 8Position vide d’où un syntagme a été déplacé.
- 9Représentation de l’exécution d’un programme.
- 10Gros papier gris autrefois utilisé pour la fabrication des cartes à jouer.
- 11Dose de drogue prête à être insufflée à des fins récréatives.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtace,tarce,tracce,traec,trcae,trrace,ttrace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "trace"
Frequency rank: #3,369 in French
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