cath
noun, verb
cath is spelled C-A-T-H: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Cath, the name). As a noun, cath means “Clipping of cathode” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cath is caths.
How many letters and syllables are in cath?
| Letters | 4: C-A-T-H |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 32,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is cath?
Cath appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Cath, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
What rhymes with cath?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as cath.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: chat, tach.
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 cath
- caths plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- cathing participle, present
- cathed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cath mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Clipping of cathode.
- 2
informalClipping of catheter.
- 3
Clipping of cathinone.
- 4
Clipping of Catholic.
verb
- 1
informalClipping of catheterize (“to insert a cath(eter) into a cavity”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does cath come from?
Clippings of various words, based on their shared prefix cath-, primarily from Ancient Greek κᾰθ’ (kăth’), κᾰτᾰ́ (kătắ, whence English cata-); the cath- in cathinone is from Catha, the genus name of Catha edulis, a Latinization of Arabic قات (qāt), the plant's native name (whence English khat).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).