cathedral
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The verdict
“cathedral” is uncommon German (frequency #73,354 among 20,081 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,354
- frequency rank, German
- 20,081
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Kathedrale, Dom
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cathedral |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cathedral” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cathedral is uncommon German at frequency #73,354 among 20,081 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kathedrale, Dom".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cathedral, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is cathedral, spelled C-A-T-H-E-D-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Kathedrale, Dom
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is C-A-T-H-E-D-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.