traquent

\tʁak\

/\tʁak\/ verb

The verdict

“traquent” is uncommon French (frequency #53,037 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,037
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de traquer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-traquent · traquent · French

traquent · rank #53,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,037
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH Transvaal

Nearest frequency peer: Transvaal (-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 « traquent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « traquent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for traquent
PropertyValue
Headwordtraquent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tʁak\
Letters8
Frequency rank#53,037
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « traquent » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).traquenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Transvaal » (#53,036), « Travolta » (#53,038), « translucides » (#53,035). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « traquent » est au #53,037. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

traquent is uncommon French at frequency #53,037 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

traquent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is traquent, spelled T-R-A-Q-U-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de traquer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de traquer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how traquent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Produire propre, telle est la devise des fromagers d’aujourd'hui qui traquent avec acharnement le staphylo et la lystéria, tout en essayant de préserver le lait et sa biologie particulière pour qu’il demeure aussi fromageable qu’il y a 30 ans.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "traquent"?
"traquent" is spelled T-R-A-Q-U-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁak\.
What does "traquent" mean?
As a verb, "traquent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de traquer.
How do you pronounce "traquent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "traquent" is \tʁak\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "traquent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "traquent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list