catalytique
\ka.ta.li.tik\
The verdict
“catalytique” is uncommon French (frequency #59,149 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,149
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De la catalyse, par un catalyseur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catalytique · catalytique · French
catalytique · rank #59,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,149
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castello
Nearest frequency peer: castello (-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 « catalytique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carpet
carpet
40,855 corpus weight
- cassage
cassage
40,854 corpus weight
- castello
castello
40,853 corpus weight
- catalytique
catalytique
40,852 corpus weight
- Cavalaire
Cavalaire
40,851 corpus weight
- cde
cde
40,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « catalytique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catalytique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ta.li.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « catalytique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
catalytique is uncommon French at frequency #59,149 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ta.li.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De la catalyse, par un catalyseur.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for catalytique, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is catalytique, spelled C-A-T-A-L-Y-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1De la catalyse, par un catalyseur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how catalytique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette substance est catalytique, elle accélère cette réaction tout en restant inaltérée.
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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