cat
\kat\
The verdict
“cat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,211) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,211
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de qat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cat · cat · French
cat · rank #8,211 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,211
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chauds
Nearest frequency peer: chauds (+1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « cat »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- bull
bull
91,793 corpus weight
- bush
bush
91,792 corpus weight
- cat
cat
91,790 corpus weight
- chauds
chauds
91,789 corpus weight
- cheville
cheville
91,788 corpus weight
- chèvre
chèvre
91,787 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cat » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | cat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kat\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cat »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cat is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kat\. Frequency #8,211 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Variante de qat.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cat in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "ci", "co", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cat, spelled C-A-T.
Definition
- 1Variante de qat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arrivé le matin, ayant tout juste pris le temps de se délester de son rapport verbal, Carlier s’était couché, rendu, ayant à compenser deux nuits blanches passées, en plus de la journée intercalaire, à déterrer la B 144 qui, sous la diligente impulsion d’un indigène bourré de cat, était allée, toutes bielles trépignantes, donner du nez dans un éboulis de…
En Éthiopie, au Yémen et aux Somalies, un petit arbuste fait l’objet d'un important commerce : le cat (Catha edulis Célastracées).
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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