Katherine
/ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/
"katherine" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Katherine” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,202
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from Ancient Greek, a popular spelling variant of Catherine.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Katherine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Katherine” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Katherine (IPA /ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,202 among 9,255 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Katherine, with forms such as "aktherine", "kahterine", and "katehrine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Katerina", "Katharine", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Katherine, spelled K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Ancient Greek, a popular spelling variant of Catherine.
- 2A town and local government area (the Town of Katherine) in the Northern Territory, Australia.
- 3A river in the Northern Territory, which gave its name to the town.
- 4A census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aktherine
- kahterine
- katehrine
- katheirne
- katherien
- katherinne
- kathernie
- katherrine
- kathherine
- kathreine
- kattherine
- kkatherine
- ktaherine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Katherine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “Katherine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkæθ(ə)ɹɪn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Katerina” - see the side-by-side comparison. Katherine vs Katerina
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
Data Source
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.