tractus
\tʁak.tys\
The verdict
“tractus” is uncommon French (frequency #65,580 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,580
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de fibres ou d'organes qui se font suite et forment une unité fonctionnelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tractus · tractus · French
tractus · rank #65,580 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,580
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tournèrent
Nearest frequency peer: tournèrent (-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 « tractus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- torrides
torrides
34,424 corpus weight
- torréfaction
torréfaction
34,423 corpus weight
- tournèrent
tournèrent
34,422 corpus weight
- tractus
tractus
34,421 corpus weight
- traiterait
traiterait
34,420 corpus weight
- transférez
transférez
34,419 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tractus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tractus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁak.tys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tractus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tractus is uncommon French at frequency #65,580 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁak.tys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ensemble de fibres ou d'organes qui se font suite et forment une unité fonctionnelle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tractus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tractus, spelled T-R-A-C-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de fibres ou d'organes qui se font suite et forment une unité fonctionnelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tractus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis l’oto-rhino introduisit dans son tarin un trocart : l’incision du tractus olfactif provoqua la naso-dilatation dont l’oto-rhino profita illico, scarifiant au grattoir d'Obradovitch la cloison.
Les branches les plus volumineuses de ces deux vaisseaux cheminent côte à côte dans des tractus fibreux, appelés espaces portes, accompagnés par les canaux biliaires qui véhiculent la bile dans la direction opposée, […].
This word in other languages
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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