tracer

\tʁa.se\

/\tʁa.se\/ verb

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The verdict

“tracer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,869. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,869
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tirer des traits, indiquer les lignes d’une figure, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tracer · tracer · French

tracer · rank #11,869 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,869
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH sécuriser

Nearest frequency peer: sécuriser (-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 « tracer »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « tracer » 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).

tracer vs trame
67% similar
tracer vs trade
67% similar
tracer vs trier
67% similar

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

Key facts for tracer
PropertyValue
Headwordtracer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tʁa.se\
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,869
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tracer »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sécuriser » (#11,868), « tribunes » (#11,870), « suivies » (#11,867). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tracer » est au #11,869. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around tracer (IPA \tʁa.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,869 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tracer, with forms such as "rtacer", "tarcer", and "traccer". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trame", "trade", "trier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tracer, spelled T-R-A-C-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tirer des traits, indiquer les lignes d’une figure, etc.
  2. 2
    Ouvrir une piste, frayer un chemin ou une route.
  3. 3
    Écrire.
  4. 4
    Faire sur le canevas les premiers points, pour marquer le contour des objets dans un ouvrage de broderie, de tapisserie.
  5. 5
    Reconstituer le parcours d'un objet ou d'un être en utilisant les traces laissées par celui-ci.
  6. 6
    Se dit des arbres dont les racines s’étendent horizontalement, par opposition à pivoter.
  7. 7
    Filer, se dépêcher.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. En continuant à tourner les pages, Hervé en trouva deux où on avait tracé des lignes qui avaient l'air de former des plans topographiques.
  2. Tracer une circonférence.

Synonyms

faire la tracetracer la route

This word in other languages

draw(English)trazar(Español)zeichnen(Deutsch)traçar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtacer
  • tarcer
  • traccer
  • tracerr
  • tracre
  • traecr
  • trcaer
  • trracer
  • ttracer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tracer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

rtacer2tarcer2traccer1tracerr1tracre2traecr2trcaer2trracer1
Edit distance from "tracer"

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 "tracer"?
"tracer" is spelled T-R-A-C-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁa.se\.
What does "tracer" mean?
As a verb, "tracer" means: Tirer des traits, indiquer les lignes d’une figure, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "tracer"?
"tracer" is commonly confused with "trame", "trade", "trier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tracer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tracer" is \tʁa.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tracer" come from?
"tracer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Sophia#11,858vitale#11,880volent#11,882silver#11,854

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

suivies9 variantsUruguay9 variantsvicieux9 variantsscores9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list