Tracfin
\tʁak.fɛ̃\
The verdict
“Tracfin” is uncommon French (frequency #63,419 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,419
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme du ministère de l’Économie et des Finances français, chargé de la lutte contre le blanchiment d’argent et contre le financement du terrorisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tracfin · Tracfin · French
Tracfin · rank #63,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,419
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tourmentés
Nearest frequency peer: tourmentés (-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 « Tracfin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tombante
tombante
36,585 corpus weight
- Tommaso
Tommaso
36,584 corpus weight
- tourmentés
tourmentés
36,583 corpus weight
- Tracfin
Tracfin
36,582 corpus weight
- Transnistrie
Transnistrie
36,581 corpus weight
- transpirant
transpirant
36,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tracfin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tracfin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁak.fɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tracfin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tracfin is uncommon French at frequency #63,419 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁak.fɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisme du ministère de l’Économie et des Finances français, chargé de la lutte contre le blanchiment d’argent et contre le financement du terrorisme.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tracfin 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Tracfin, spelled T-R-A-C-F-I-N.
Definition
- 1Organisme du ministère de l’Économie et des Finances français, chargé de la lutte contre le blanchiment d’argent et contre le financement du terrorisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tracfin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chargée de la lutte contre l’argent sale, Tracfin, cellule française du ministère de l'Economie, a enregistré une hausse sans précédent de son activité en 2016.
La fraude au CPF a fortement augmenté en 2021, détaillait en juillet Tracfin, la cellule de renseignements financiers de Bercy.
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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