catamaran
\ka.ta.ma.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“catamaran” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,359. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,359
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bateau possédant deux coques, en général l’une à côté de l’autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catamaran · catamaran · French
catamaran · rank #44,359 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,359
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Castorama
Nearest frequency peer: Castorama (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « catamaran »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- carrera
carrera
55,645 corpus weight
- carène
carène
55,644 corpus weight
- Castorama
Castorama
55,643 corpus weight
- catamaran
catamaran
55,642 corpus weight
- causerie
causerie
55,641 corpus weight
- Cavaillon
Cavaillon
55,640 corpus weight
What this shows « catamaran » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | catamaran |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ta.ma.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « catamaran »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around catamaran (IPA \ka.ta.ma.ʁɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,359 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bateau possédant deux coques, en général l’une à côté de l’autre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for catamaran, with forms such as "actamaran", "caatmaran", and "cataamran". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is catamaran, spelled C-A-T-A-M-A-R-A-N.
Definition
- 1Bateau possédant deux coques, en général l’une à côté de l’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how catamaran appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par rapport aux monocoques, les catamarans ont plus de stabilité et moins de tirant d’eau.
Dans toute l’histoire de la navigation, le catamaran est sans doute l’embarcation qui réalise les transformations les plus radicales et, sous sa forme moderne, les plus récentes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- actamaran
- caatmaran
- cataamran
- catamaarn
- catamarann
- catamarna
- catamarran
- catammaran
- catamraan
- catmaaran
- cattamaran
- ccatamaran
- ctaamaran
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of catamaran - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).