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Past tense of traffic

regular verb

The past tense of traffic is trafficked. The past participle is also trafficked.

Forms of traffic

Base form (V1)traffic /ˈtɹæfɪk/
Past tense (V2)trafficked
Past participle (V3)trafficked
Present participletrafficking
Third person singulartraffics /ˈtɹæfɪks/

Trafficked in a sentence

  • “From Lawrence, it’s being trafficked and sold all over the New England states.”2016 March 25, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Heroin Epidemic Is Yielding to a Deadlier Cousin: Fentanyl”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry Healey
  • We see a very trafficked big cross in Roma.2016, Irv Bauer, Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry trafficked
  • Possessed of many thinly trafficked lines and dual-purpose assignments for engines, CPR commonsensically employed Pacifics as all-purpose engines, bought 4-6-2's until dieselization.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 114. From the entry trafficked

Meaning of traffic

  1. noun Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
  2. noun The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
  3. noun A flow of customers for a store or restaurant.

Full definition of traffic

Questions about the past tense of traffic

What is the past tense of traffic?
The past tense of traffic is trafficked.
What is the past participle of traffic?
The past participle of traffic is trafficked.
Is traffic a regular or irregular verb?
Traffic is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: traffic (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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