Catullus
/kəˈtʌləs/
"catullus" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Catullus” is uncommon English (frequency #78,461 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,461
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gaius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet
Corpus desk
Index EN-catullus · Catullus · English
Catullus · rank #78,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,461
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cebuano
Nearest frequency peer: Cebuano (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Catullus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Carpathians
Carpathians
21,543 corpus weight
- Cathal
Cathal
21,542 corpus weight
- Catullus
Catullus
21,540 corpus weight
- Cebuano
Cebuano
21,539 corpus weight
- celadon
celadon
21,538 corpus weight
- CENTCOM
CENTCOM
21,537 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Catullus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Catullus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kəˈtʌləs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Catullus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Catullus is uncommon English at frequency #78,461 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kəˈtʌləs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gaius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet".
No misspelling variants are generated for Catullus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 English form is Catullus, spelled C-A-T-U-L-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Gaius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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