traqueur
\tʁa.kœʁ\
The verdict
“traqueur” is uncommon French (frequency #58,314 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,314
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme qu’on emploie pour traquer le gibier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-traqueur · traqueur · French
traqueur · rank #58,314 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,314
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transmette
Nearest frequency peer: transmette (-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 « traqueur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trahissant
trahissant
41,691 corpus weight
- transgressi…
transgressions
41,689 corpus weight
- transmette
transmette
41,688 corpus weight
- traqueur
traqueur
41,687 corpus weight
- travestisse…
travestissement
41,686 corpus weight
- tressée
tressée
41,684 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « traqueur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | traqueur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « traqueur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
traqueur is uncommon French at frequency #58,314 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for traqueur in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is traqueur, spelled T-R-A-Q-U-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Homme qu’on emploie pour traquer le gibier.
- 2Celui qui recherche une chose de façon assidue et opiniâtre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how traqueur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant aux approvisionnements, on pouvait compter sur les chasseurs du détachement. Quelques-uns de ces soldats étaient d’habiles traqueurs de gibier, et les rennes ne manquent pas dans les régions polaires.
« Kihoro est un Wakamba, me dit la jeune femme à voix basse et lasse. Il a longtemps servi mon mari comme guide et traqueur. »
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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