tracter
\tʁak.te\
The verdict
“tracter” is uncommon French (frequency #56,986 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,986
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tirer (en parlant d’un véhicule).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tracter · tracter · French
tracter · rank #56,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,986
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tortilla
Nearest frequency peer: tortilla (-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 « tracter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- toilettage
toilettage
43,019 corpus weight
- tortilla
tortilla
43,016 corpus weight
- tracter
tracter
43,015 corpus weight
- transgéniqu…
transgéniques
43,014 corpus weight
- transparency
transparency
43,013 corpus weight
- transportera
transportera
43,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tracter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tracter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁak.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tracter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tracter is uncommon French at frequency #56,986 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁak.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tirer (en parlant d’un véhicule).".
tracter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 tracter, spelled T-R-A-C-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tirer (en parlant d’un véhicule).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tracter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un grand nombre [de locomotives] sont d'ailleurs employées à tracter les trains militaires.
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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