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How to spell track

hear ittrack/træk/nounSounds

What it means: A path for trains to travel on.

In a sentence: The train zoomed along the track.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as trak or trac.

Same family: tracks, trackless, trackway, side-track, off-track. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Track” comes from Middle French “trac,” meaning a path or mark left by something moving. It is related to the idea of a trail or footprint, which is why we also talk about “tracking” animals or “keeping track” of information.

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