I have also heard from geologists who say they spell it fraccing, and one who says it's fracting with a silent t.
Source: wiktionary
Fraccing
Synonyms for "fraccing"
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
form of
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Fraccing is the process of creating cracks in underground coal seams to increase the flow and recovery of gas or oil out of a well.
Source: wiktionary
The industry argues that this is highly unlikely, as the fraccing takes place a mile or more below drinking water aquifers and is separated from them by thick layers of impermeable rock. Moreover, the industry has a great deal of experience with fraccing. More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.
Source: wiktionary
Fraccing fluids contain proppants that forced into the natural fractures of fissures of the rock under pressure.
Source: wiktionary
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.