Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contact tracer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English

Syllables: con-tac-t -trac-er
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person engaged in contact tracing.

Example Sentences

"Contact tracing was used in Wuhan, where 1,800 teams of five people went house to house, and Ireland last week said it would recruit 1,400 contact tracers."

Inflected Forms

contact tracers (plural) contact-tracer (alternative)

Questions

What does contact tracer mean?: A person engaged in contact tracing.

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