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“Tack>tact” is also in the Eggcorn Database. To check whether something’s already there, click on “Eggcorn Database” at the top of this page, then put the term into the “Search” box at the right hand side of the Database page.

The “tack>tact” entry doesn’t have the variant “track,” so you might want to enter that directly as a comment on the Database entry.

The Database is (more or less) organized by “headwords”—the words that actually get changed in the eggcornish phrase. So it’s easiest just to punch in, say, “tact” or “tack” or “tract” or “track.”

For reasons I don’t understand, the first search box just sometimes doesn’t work. For instance, putting in “tract” there doesn’t pull up the entry for “tract>track.” Don’t know why. But the second “search” will generally bring up what you’re looking for from the Database.