tracking

/\tʁa.kiŋ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#28,379

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

tracking is aFrenchnoun. It means: Suivi en continu des déplacements de personnes, d’animaux ou d’objets via la géolocalisation. Pronounced \tʁa.kiŋ\. Often confused with trading and training.

Key facts for tracking
PropertyValue
Headwordtracking
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁa.kiŋ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,379
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tracking in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tracking is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁa.kiŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,379 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Suivi en continu des déplacements de personnes, d’animaux ou d’objets via la géolocalisation.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for tracking, with forms such as "rtacking", "tarcking", and "traccking". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "trading", "training", 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 tracking, spelled T-R-A-C-K-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Suivi en continu des déplacements de personnes, d’animaux ou d’objets via la géolocalisation.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rtacking,tarcking,traccking,tracikng,trackign,trackingg,trackinng,trackking,tracknig,trakcing,trcaking,trracking,ttracking

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tracking

Misspelling Variants of "tracking"

rtacking8tarcking8traccking9tracikng8trackign8trackingg9trackinng9trackking9
Misspelling Variants of "tracking"

Frequency rank: #28,379 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tracking"?
"tracking" is spelled T-R-A-C-K-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁa.kiŋ\.
What does "tracking" mean?
As a noun, "tracking" means: Suivi en continu des déplacements de personnes, d’animaux ou d’objets via la géolocalisation.
What words are commonly confused with "tracking"?
"tracking" is commonly confused with "trading", "training". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tracking"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tracking" is \tʁa.kiŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tracking" come from?
"tracking" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.