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"record" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often log (3 letters).
Definitions
Account; official store of facts
Word origin
From Middle English recorden (“to repeat, to report”), borrowed from Old French recorder (“to get by heart”), from Latin recordārī (“remember, call to mind”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).
Used in a sentence
“The person had a record of the interview so she could review her notes.”
“The tourist's photographs and the tape of the police call provide a record of the crime.”
“He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer5 curated clues
01“Best performance mark”6 letters
02“Disc for music”6 letters
03“Official written account”6 letters
04“Vinyl disc”6 letters
05“Vinyl music disc”6 letters
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