Catalunya
\kətəˈluɲə\
The verdict
“Catalunya” is uncommon French (frequency #53,844 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,844
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catalogne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catalunya · Catalunya · French
Catalunya · rank #53,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,844
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castrer
Nearest frequency peer: castrer (-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 « Catalunya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carrosseries
carrosseries
46,161 corpus weight
- cartésienne
cartésienne
46,159 corpus weight
- castrer
castrer
46,158 corpus weight
- Catalunya
Catalunya
46,157 corpus weight
- Caucasien
Caucasien
46,156 corpus weight
- causal
causal
46,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Catalunya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Catalunya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kətəˈluɲə\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Catalunya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Catalunya is uncommon French at frequency #53,844 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kətəˈluɲə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Catalogne.".
Catalunya doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Catalunya, spelled C-A-T-A-L-U-N-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Catalogne.
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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