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catalogue

/ˈkæt.əˌlɔɡ/noun, verb

catalogue is spelled C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “catalog vs catalogue” about 6,600 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, catalogue means “A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of catalogue is catalogues.

How many letters and syllables are in catalogue?

Letters9: C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.1 times per million words; the 8,146th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is catalogue?

Catalogue appears 8.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,146th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce catalogue?

  • UK /ˈkæt.əˌlɒɡ/
  • US /ˈkæt.əˌlɔɡ/
  • /ˈkæt.əˌlɑɡ/

Catalogue has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-catalogue.ogg, En-us-catalogue.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with catalogue

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

catalog vs catalogue6,600 G

Also written: catalog.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with catalogue?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as catalogue (/ætəlɔɡ/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: coagulate.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of catalogue

  • catalogues plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • catalog US
  • cataloguing participle, present
  • catalogued participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does catalogue mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.

  2. 2

    A complete (usually alphabetical or chronological) list of items.

  3. 3

    A list of all the publications in a library; a library catalogue.

  4. 4

    A retailer's magazine detailing the products they sell, allowing the reader to order them for delivery.

  5. 5

    USA book printed periodically by a college, university, or other institution that gives a definitive description of the institution, its history, courses and degrees offered, etc.

  6. 6

    datedA directory listing.

  7. 7

    A complete list of a recording artist's or a composer's songs.

  8. 8

    A series of unwelcome or unpleasant things, often similar.

    The accident followed a catalogue of errors.

verb

  1. 1

    To put into a catalogue.

  2. 2

    To make a catalogue of.

  3. 3

    To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.

  4. 4

    to value or sort stamps using a catalogue

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Catalogue in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcatalogue (a systematic list of names, books, pictures etc), inventaire (a complete list of items), cataloguer (to put into a catalogue), inventorier (to make a catalogue of)
GermanKatalog, Liste (a systematic list of names, books, pictures etc), Verzeichnis (a complete list of items), katalogisieren (to put into a catalogue)
Portuguesecatálogo (a systematic list of names, books, pictures etc), catalogar (to put into a catalogue), programa (book printed periodically by a college…)
Spanishcatálogo (a systematic list of names, books, pictures etc), registro (a complete list of items), catalogar (to put into a catalogue), calendario universitario (book printed periodically by a college…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does catalogue come from?

From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος (katálogos, “enrollment, register”), from καταλέγω (katalégō, “to recount, make a list”), from κατα- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + λέγω (légō, “to say, to speak, to tell”). Equivalent to cata- + -logue.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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