traceable

adjective

trace·​able ˈtrā-sə-bəl 

1

: capable of being traced

a traceable phone call

2

: suitable or of a kind to be attributed to something specified : due

—used with to

… perhaps 35 percent of cancer cases in the U.S. are traceable to dietary factors.

—Gary Blonston

Examples of traceable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Speed without a traceable, auditable foundation is a risk. —Aaron Levine, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

For the past three months, federal authorities have been moving to seize assets traceable to the fraud scheme. —Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026

The company makes the recycling process traceable through embedding molecular markers into the plastics and producing a digital chain-of-custody system. —Felysha Walker, Miami Herald, 22 May 2026

Ionic Rare Earths Limited is a miner, refiner and recycler of sustainable and traceable magnet and heavy rare earths. —Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for traceable

• erasable
• replaceable
• untraceable
• irreplaceable