tract
\tʁakt\
The verdict
“tract” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,489. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,489
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit document servant à la propagande ou à la publicité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tract · tract · French
tract · rank #21,489 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,489
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trajectoires
Nearest frequency peer: trajectoires (+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 « tract »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- toléré
toléré
78,515 corpus weight
- tondeuse
tondeuse
78,514 corpus weight
- tract
tract
78,512 corpus weight
- trajectoires
trajectoires
78,511 corpus weight
- transatlant…
transatlantique
78,510 corpus weight
- transformées
transformées
78,509 corpus weight
What this shows « tract » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tract |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁakt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tract »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around tract (IPA \tʁakt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,489 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit document servant à la propagande ou à la publicité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tract, with forms such as "rtact", "tarct", and "tracct". 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, "truc", "tram", "trot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tract, spelled T-R-A-C-T.
Definition
- 1Petit document servant à la propagande ou à la publicité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tract appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La direction nationale du Parti communiste, dans sa presse clandestine, dans ses tracts, attaquait toujours plutôt Vichy que l'occupant.
Car la chanson a été importante dans le dispositif d'une subversion politique qui, tout compte fait, a peut-être plus avancé par le 45 tours que par le tract, par le mange-disques que par le cocktail Molotov.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtact
- tarct
- tracct
- tractt
- tratc
- trcat
- trract
- ttract
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tract - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).