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How to spell tractor

hear ittrac·tor/'træktər/nounHidden vowels

What it means: A vehicle used for pulling heavy loads.

In a sentence: The farmer drives a big green tractor on the farm.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as tracter or tractar.

Same family: traction, tractor-trailer, extract, attract, contractor. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Tractor” comes from the Latin word “tractus,” meaning “drawn” or “pulled.” It literally names a machine whose main job is to pull heavy things like trailers or farm equipment.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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