cataloguer
\ka.ta.lɔ.ɡe\
The verdict
“cataloguer” is uncommon French (frequency #56,472 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,472
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dénombrer sous forme de catalogue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cataloguer · cataloguer · French
cataloguer · rank #56,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,472
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catalog
Nearest frequency peer: catalog (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cataloguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cannette
cannette
43,533 corpus weight
- capita
capita
43,532 corpus weight
- catalog
catalog
43,530 corpus weight
- cataloguer
cataloguer
43,529 corpus weight
- caviste
caviste
43,528 corpus weight
- ceps
ceps
43,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cataloguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cataloguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.ta.lɔ.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cataloguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cataloguer is uncommon French at frequency #56,472 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.ta.lɔ.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cataloguer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cataloguer, spelled C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dénombrer sous forme de catalogue.
- 2Considérer une personne selon des préjugés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cataloguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vis, là-haut, dans le ciel, une montagne inconnue, dont le sommet rocheux s'allongeait sur au moins cinq cents mètres. C'était le Taoumé, mais comme je n'avais jamais vu que sa face, je ne le reconnus pas. Ainsi le premier astronome qui verra l'autre côté de la lune cataloguera un astre nouveau.
— Qu'ils fussent informés de la découverte de Renée et personne ne me recevrait plus. Ces messieurs me catalogueraient définitivement et toute démarche de ma part afin de me justifier ne servirait qu'à aggraver la situation.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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