catess
"catess" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“catess” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of she-cat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-catess · catess · English
catess · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catess |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “catess” in English
Rare enough to double-check
catess is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of she-cat.".
Zero misspellings are on record for catess in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cat + -ess. The correct English form is catess, spelled C-A-T-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Synonym of she-cat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how catess appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I merely add that after a short acquaintance between the Monkey and the Lioness, a Cat and Catess made their appearance to the great surprise and no small scandal of the whole social circle.[…]Anubis, worshipped since under the name of Mercury, was transformed into a Dog; Diana, who according to a learned Orientalist, is the same as the Egyptian Isis, too…
Besides the animals of the neighbourhood, for whom Madame Ahavzi kept open table on certain days, she kept of her own two cats and four catesses, which she took a great deal more care of than if they had been human beings.
Etymology
From cat + -ess.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.